LTC FPGA discussion!

[shibaji]

I am very interested in this project, and would love to have a change to buy one, if sold.

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[jasinlee]

I will give plenty of updates when there is something to report that will not lead to speculation about prices, hashrates, power consumption, how much street cred I have, why smoothie isnt dead after drinking so much sugar, why simran is forever alone etc. I will release info when we have real numbers that can be demonstrated as fact rather than guesstimates. I do appreciate the interest everyone has expressed in the PMs, but I cannot give out info via PM either.

[jasinlee]

I C U jasinlee, trollin the ltc network

Lol if only. This project would have been done already if that was the case.

[Tomatocage]

Sweet keep this updated. I want to know when so I can  move onto the next thing and dump all this sheot to the greater fools.

4-6 weeks.

[meebs]

Still trying to squeeze a demo unit out of me huh? Just to be clear we are not done yet, but we are nearing completion. I am not giving out a bunch of details for now, partly due to competition and partly due to my knowledge of how the technical aspects being limited.

I think you meant to say... "we are working on this.. but we are the opposite of BFL.. so all we can say is we are working on it. We dont want your coins yet and we wont guestimate a ship date".

Good work though! I honestly feel good cheap mining solutions will be a key to keeping a currency viable long term.

[jasinlee]

Agreed, and I may poke fun, but I don't feel like a flame war with any PR reps from other companies so I will try to keep my sarcasm under control.

[BitcoinINV]

I like the way this is happening, cant wait to see a finished product.

[samurai1200]

...speculation about prices, hashrates, power consumption, how much street cred I have, why smoothie isnt dead after drinking so much sugar, why simran is forever alone etc...

oh dang, DEEP into the btce trollbox!

[chriswen]

So, I was like aww missed bitcoin jump.  Remember wanting to buy at $8 and when it went to $15 I was like so expensive.  And then last time I checked it was $25 and now its $50.  Have like 0.2 bitcoin.

But, I do have 25 litecoin that I mined and that has increased in value .

Anyways I'm really interested in FPGA but was wondering what's the price range going to be.

[efx]

"why smoothie isnt dead after drinking so much sugar, why simran is forever alone etc."

[wizzardTim]

I will give plenty of updates when there is something to report that will not lead to speculation about prices, hashrates, power consumption, how much street cred I have, why smoothie isnt dead after drinking so much sugar, why simran is forever alone etc. I will release info when we have real numbers that can be demonstrated as fact rather than guesstimates. I do appreciate the interest everyone has expressed in the PMs, but I cannot give out info via PM either.

Thank you jasinlee for the great news and for the effort it took creating the world's first FPGA LTC board!! Please count me in for any update, not only regarding the real numbers that can be estimated, but for purchasing some also.

[SyRenity]

Would love joining this project to even out the mining field (vs. Avalon latest pricing scheme...).

[BBQKorv]

I could see this selling very well if it's more power efficient than GPUs and also reasonably priced in comparison to GPU with a similar hashrate. Looking up for this!

[jasinlee]

We have a lot of interest in the project so far, just taking it one day at a time. When we have more info we will announce it, the first batch will likely be small, but that is still a while away.

[ElectricMucus]

I am curious what are you up to? Make a memory controller into the FPGA and pack a bunch of DRAM chips onto the board?

[jasinlee]

I am curious what are you up to? Make a memory controller into the FPGA and pack a bunch of DRAM chips onto the board?

Wouldn't you like to know!

[SyRenity]

We have a lot of interest in the project so far, just taking it one day at a time. When we have more info we will announce it, the first batch will likely be small, but that is still a while away.

Do consider giving early adopters a fair chance to get the unit, rather than turning it into Black Friday sale ala Avalon.

By the way, asking today on BTC-E regarding LTC FPGA miner, I got an answer that such miner could not be powerful enough for the mining algorithm, what do you say?

[jasinlee]

I say, there are lots of "internet engineers" and they do not always know what they are talking about. They are assuming we are doing things the way they would do it....assuming they have any idea what they are talking about in the first place.

[shibaji]

We have a lot of interest in the project so far, just taking it one day at a time. When we have more info we will announce it, the first batch will likely be small, but that is still a while away.

Do consider giving early adopters a fair chance to get the unit, rather than turning it into Black Friday sale ala Avalon.

By the way, asking today on BTC-E regarding LTC FPGA miner, I got an answer that such miner could not be powerful enough for the mining algorithm, what do you say?

That is absolutely BS. May be they meant no FPGA currently on the market will be efficient - this is completely different from the blanket statement. FPGA is a generic model (slower simulation) for any ASIC, and anything that an ASIC can do, can be done through FPGA.

I am not pulling this out of thin air. I am in EDA industry for past 15 years, and have been dealing with all big shots in ASIC/FPGA customers.

I am very very excited about this project as well, and of course, concur you statement about early adopter - and request the same to jasinlee.

[mr_random]

The title of this post is going to be very ironic in coming months.

I predict most the benefits of fgpas will simply be lower power consumption per coin.