First public-ready algorithms should be done around mid to late June. However I am hesitant to 'release' the bitstreams unless numerous algorithms are available. I wouldn't want someone to invest $10K in hardware with only 1 or 2 algorithms in case those coins profit or ROI suddenly changes. A good investment would be to have 4-5 algorithms available, making the hardware more secure against market changes.
Anyway, once people start mining with PC's linked to numerous high end FPGA cards, they will be 'immune' to forks since the algorithms in the FPGA's can be changed as fast as developers can fork their coin, actually faster in most cases since even a poorly tested rig can still mine, whereas a coin cannot fork until the new setup is heavily tested.
Good work,
what platform you are targeting only Virtex? Some lower end Kintex UltraScale, Kintex UltraScale+ parts have enough internal ram to run at least one instance and they are much more easy to find ready to ship.
The three boards I am going to initially support are the Nexys Video (XC7A200T $490), Avnet AES-KU040-DB-G (Kintex Ultrascale+ $975), and VCU1525 (Virtex VU9P $3995). I will start a thread soon and list which algorithms will be released for each board (the Virtex can run all the algorithms, the Kintex can run most, the Nexys can only run a few).
My implementations are 100% unrolled pipelines running at one clock cycle per stage. The ROI on the Kintex and Virtex boards range from 50-150 days based on the algorithm, in today's bear market with 1-2 year ROI's on GPU's. If the market rises back to Dec/2017 levels, ROI would be ridiculously short.
Please do not purchase any of the above hardware until I announce the official hash rates. I hope other FPGA developers follow my lead and stop mining in secret and start spreading the wealth. We need to give crypto back to the people. With enough people mining with high end FPGA's, Bitmain and Baikal can no longer control the market and screw people over.
Power consumption for 90% usage on the VCU1525 is around 170W. The best high end rig is a standard mining motherboard with 8 x VCU1525 and a single 1600W power supply.
Are you using OpenCL on the VCU1525?
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