To build any asic or Fpga card or boards yourself you need to be a student of Electrical Engineering. Here in India we have this topic in the 3rd Semester of our course.
From what I have gathered .. building the board is easy, its the chip that counts & isnt something that is easily made by sitting at home.
But I am interested in making my own rig as well be it a low power consuming yet high hashing FPGA board or a high hashing but useless ASIC board.
One thing is certain, that the Bitcoin community is only open these days to "old/early" adopters, as they have already made enough bitcoins when the difficulty was low. People like you & me try to get in but we cant .. basic reasons :
1. We just do not have thousands of dollars or hundreds of Bitcoins to buy us or PRE ORDER ouselves any mining rig - if we did we wudnt be here looking for easy way to make money now would we ?
2. The more number of people start mining the higher is the difficulty & lower is the reward / payout for existing miners.
Currently I have a single Gt 220 installed in my pc & it gives me a speed of 5 mh/s ~ so imagine my condition.
Complaining because you didn't start using bitcoins years ago isn't going to make bitcoins fly into your wallet, so if I may suggest going and buying a few so in 2+ years you can say you paid ~150 USD for something thats worth 1k
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BTC4A
I am not complaining but just describing the plight of the so called 'new comers' all we are doing is sitting and loathing at a product that on the cover promises to :
- be decentralized
- be meant for everyone
- give every average user the power and control of his own money
- gives out an equal opportunity to everyone with a computer to start 'making' money.
To me it seems like the story has become slightly different although Bitcoin stays true to its nature & promises BUT,
- The early adopters now have a lot of coins themselves the new comers dont stand a chance.
We cant afford to order an ASIC that costs $2k.
- If we order a $200 worth ASIC by the time we'll get it the 5 gh/s it'll produce wont be enough to even compensate for it's own price in a month. hence it is no longer for 'everyone', and definitely not for an average user.
If this keeps up i think we might end up with an Inverted Pyramid .... Initially the community was strong hashing power well spread, but in the end the hashing powered will be owned by the few who have the money to buy the hardwares - these people would either be the early adopters or the rich scumbag companies.
My viewpoints arent perfect they could be flawed and probably are.
