Designing SCRYPT miner hardware: and I am not a tech guy

[noooze]

This is going to be fun - and by fun I mean, I'm getting a hell of a lot of gray hair.

The story so far:

I have been trading in cryptocurrencies for a while and have been mining a bit from home.
My very good friend has never been trading, but want to and was really keen on mining.


As he has money to invest, he sat me down one day and said: Should we buy a lot of miners or should we produce the hardware and then assemble ourselves?

I pondered over this question for a while, until I was told that we should try and produce our own.
We have in our network engineers, who are working on circuit board design and such, so doing the design of the board is ( for once ) not the hard part.

What is our aim then?
Well its two fold:

1: produce a scrypt miner ( as the first one ) with a hashing power of 500-700 mh/s and only about 800 watts, for a price that is not 5000 euros, but something people can pay.
2: Getting a new miner to market, that is assembled in Europe with all the good things that comes with that.

So where are we right now?

Trying to identify the chip to be used. Have contact to a few places, but so far the A2 chip might the one.
Perhaps anyone here know better?

What we are looking at, is to make is like the blades out there.
To have a computer recognize it as a piece of hardware, compared to having a standalone system, makes it a bit easier.

But there is a long way to go, but lucky for us, there is people on board who know a lot more than I do about the technical standpoint and I'm really looking forward to the next weeks of progress.

[Ayers]

try to look at the old spreadsheet of bitmain with their scrypt asic maybe? could give an idea of what it is, but without mass production you want make any good profit of it, because at the start  the price to build one would exceed the price to simply buy one and mine i think

[noooze]

Do you know where I can find the spreadsheet?

We do have cash to start mass production.. well not a huge 10.000 machines, but enough to get a decent price.
We also have a good contact in china, where we have produced other PCB boards before.

The only real joker is the chips - as they can be cheap or very very expensive.
At this time we don't have the cashflow to do our own chips, but if we can get the first production live, that would be the first long project to begin looking at