I'm not living in my mom's basement with "free power" like some posters around here.  |
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As soon as I hit the 0.10 BTC payout threshold on BTCGuild I'm stopping, some time today. The combination of increasing difficulty and the halving have taken a toll on my 200 Mh/s "rig" Since I'm a software engineer I see this as my opportunity to switch over to solving a few interesting problems in OpenCL, something I've always found interesting. |
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We have people who borrowed in order to place pre-orders whose loans are now falling due.
Well that was dumb. We probably also have people who were counting on income from their ASICs...
And that's just plain stupid. Unless you know what you're getting into, borrowing money to fund a highly risky endeavor is foolhardy. |
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Having personally worked on a project where our final product was an ASIC I can tell you that your chances of having a working first piece are almost zero.
You get everything working in Verilog on your FPGA development board and send the Verilog files to the fab. They do the layout, make the masks, produce the first lot, do testing, ship you the first parts. You get the parts and damn, guess what you forgot something dumb. So it's back to the fab with rev 2 of the Verilog files.
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Why would someone buy used hardware at $0.74/Mhs when they can get a new Jalapeno for $0.03/Mhs?
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There ya go! Thanks, it works now.
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The auto-gpu switch is no longer recognized.
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That's really weird. My Linux PC is an ancient 1.5 GHz AMD processor and it build fine. If it bothers you I guess you could ask about CPU mining on the cgminer thread and give everyone a good laugh. Anyway back on topic you should be able to ASIC mine by doing the appropriate cgminer build under Linux. |
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is there a desktop thingie that has a lower power consumption than asus eee box or dell studio hybrid? (or anything low powered with a case in that matter)
"Thingie?" Mom? Is that you?  |
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Sweet. Will give it another go. It was yasm that was huge. EDIT: nope, just says all devices disabled, cannot mine. Make sure that after doing a fresh "./configure --enable-cpumining" you do "make clean" before doing "make" again BTW I just got cgminer compiled on my Ubuntu PC. |
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The place mentioned above may have what you're looking for.
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What version of linux is on the beaglebone? I tried to build cpu support for cgminer on an ubuntu laptop and it wanted to download like 660MB of extra data for the assembly drivers.
I used the stock BB image which is Angstrom. Regarding the assembly routines (yasm) you don't need them. I just didn't download yasm and cgminer built fine without it. The assembly code provided by yasm is x86 code that speeds up the mining algorithm. It won't work on a BB or RPi anyway since they're both ARM processors. Here's exactly what I did from the command line: root@beaglebone:~# wget http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/cgminer-2.9.4.tar.bz2root@beaglebone:~# tar xjvf cgminer-2.9.4.tar.bz2 root@beaglebone:~# cd cgminer-2.9.4 root@beaglebone:~# ./configure --enable-cpumining root@beaglebone:~# make Nothing to it. If you want FPGA mining there are switches like --enable-bitforce that you can use with "./configure" to turn those on. |
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I got cgminer running on a BeagleBone. The scary part is I could have been racking up the BTC back in the early days with a rig like this. At my current hash rate I should be getting 1 share every 7-8 hours or so. That's got USB. You tried it with any FPGAs? I don't own an FPGA miner but cgminer can be built with support for BitForce, Icarus, ModMiner and Ztex FPGA boards. Building the cgminer executable under Linux is really simple and straightforward. I built cgminer for CPU mining directly on the BeagleBone using build command switches found in the cgminer thread. |
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When ASICs start shipping try picking up an FPGA miner cheap.
Any estimates on shipping date? Plenty of threads dedicated to speculating on that one. |
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I dunno. I've been GPU mining for a while but unlike OP my hardware is paid off with a decent profit over and above that.
It's probably too late though you could make some BTC as long as you're not too ambitious.
When ASICs start shipping try picking up an FPGA miner cheap.
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The first thing I thought of was "member of parliament" and I'm American. |
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So is it officially back online then?
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I got cgminer running on a BeagleBone. The scary part is I could have been racking up the BTC back in the early days with a rig like this. At my current hash rate I should be getting 1 share every 7-8 hours or so.  |
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The semi-official Bitcoin Pool Comparison Chart only shows 2 stratum pools, BTCGuild and Slush's. Are there others?
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