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Title: Bitmain to release FPGA miners soon Post by: Etherion on May 21, 2018, 07:31:28 PM ASIC is fixed and can't be changed but what will happen once Bitmain starts to release FPGA miners with updated code everytime the coin fork?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=139&v=ZVUCwmSyD6E Title: Re: Bitmain to release FPGA miners soon Post by: dragonmike on May 21, 2018, 08:06:05 PM Oh dear.
I should've known better. There is no way around it. Bitmain is just owning us little miners whatever we do. These talks of fpga's were getting my attention again... Shame on me for thinking we'd get an advantage over the big asic producers... :( Title: Re: Bitmain to release FPGA miners soon Post by: Msobh on May 21, 2018, 08:22:39 PM interesting indeed.
Title: Re: Bitmain to release FPGA miners soon Post by: Etherion on May 21, 2018, 08:26:23 PM yea so much of Monero forks ever 6 month. Just get update from bitmain and on they go.
THE END CPU/GPU FARMS Title: Re: Bitmain to release FPGA miners soon Post by: rdluffy on May 21, 2018, 08:40:36 PM Soon only machines by Bitmain will mine and they will dominate crypto market, no GPUs, no decentralization, no people mining
Only BigFarms, Bitmain and his friends Disgusting how people can support cryptos and buy anything from bitmain Title: Re: Bitmain to release FPGA miners soon Post by: leowonderful on May 21, 2018, 08:41:50 PM Considering how much news and hype there's been surrounding FPGAs recently, I'm not really surprised Bitmain is jumping on this trend and is trying to capitalize on it. They're going to have closer ties to FPGA manufacturers like Xilinx than any of us will have, too... we'll see what happens here with time.
On another note, looking at the video description, this video was released by Xilinx's YouTube channel this January, and Bitmain have only mostly. been using FPGAs in their Antminer controllers up to now. A bit old, but with FPGAs starting to become more relevant again, it is indeed likely there could be more developments in the way of FPGAs from Bitmain soon. Title: Re: Bitmain to release FPGA miners soon Post by: shaninium on May 21, 2018, 08:57:38 PM Selling FPGA mining would have to be a last resort for bitmain. They make more money selling asics because they cant be re-programmed. Imagine if bitmain release an FPGA in mass quantities and its cracked by programmers , allowing them to turn the miner into almost any algo, limited to the specs of course. That would be horrendous to bitmains bottom line. Its like a x10 on steroids. I think theyd just use them themselves and keep using FPGAs only in controllers. Theyd make more money just releasing a new x3 every 6 months.
Title: Re: Bitmain to release FPGA miners soon Post by: Etherion on May 21, 2018, 09:20:14 PM Selling FPGA mining would have to be a last resort for bitmain. They make more money selling asics because they cant be re-programmed. Imagine if bitmain release an FPGA in mass quantities and its cracked by programmers , allowing them to turn the miner into almost any algo, limited to the specs of course. That would be horrendous to bitmains bottom line. Its like a x10 on steroids. I think theyd just use them themselves and keep using FPGAs only in controllers. Theyd make more money just releasing a new x3 every 6 months. how will it be bad for them of someone else release bitstreams for there hardware? They will then just sell more hardware and don't have to spend dev time on updating their bitstreams. I would think it would be in there interest to release hardware with well-documented guides on how to programme them with custom code. then they can just make the hardware and the hard work will be done for free. I'm not saying they will release documents but it sounds like a win win to me. Title: Re: Bitmain to release FPGA miners soon Post by: Sgsg666 on June 02, 2018, 10:15:14 AM If these comes to fruition, will it end gpu miners? Sell all our coins now because supply will be diluted? What do you guys think? Max they can create fpga is probably 4-6 months?
Title: Re: Bitmain to release FPGA miners soon Post by: gameboy366 on June 02, 2018, 01:30:58 PM Where are all of these Pro-FPGA but Anti-ASIC supporters now. I knew that FPGA will share the same fate as ASICs.
As Bitmain is slowly competiting with NVidia on all fronts now NVidia should also enter Bitmain's field- mining. Their expertise lies is GPUs so they should now make mining only gpu (not the fake ones like p106 but real ones made from ground up). Title: Re: Bitmain to release FPGA miners soon Post by: skablast on June 02, 2018, 06:51:46 PM Well, the new Nvda generation seem to be able to run 20 % faster with 30% less power.
So, on that front the gap is closing. Not so sure that Fpga tecnology can grow as fast as GPU technology Title: Re: Bitmain to release FPGA miners soon Post by: 2stout on June 02, 2018, 06:58:32 PM Wow, Bitmain again? So much for decentralization; I guess playing dirty has paid off for them again in the manifestation of soon to be released FPGAs.
Title: Re: Bitmain to release FPGA miners soon Post by: vuli1 on June 02, 2018, 08:04:05 PM stop supporting him by not buying his stuff, simple. One day, you will grow up.
Title: Re: Bitmain to release FPGA miners soon Post by: grchina on June 02, 2018, 10:07:19 PM This won't happen because it's bad for business if they sell something actually usable for mining instead overpriced paper weight/room heater
Title: Re: Bitmain to release FPGA miners soon Post by: Crypto Guru on June 02, 2018, 10:11:39 PM This is the reason, i like POS. POS does not need mining and no cost of equipments. ??? ???
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