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Author Topic: PPCoin: Another Use for the Avalon SHA256 Chips?  (Read 1496 times)
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May 18, 2013, 01:10:37 AM
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At some point, when the difficulty rises to a level that even the Avalon chips will have a hard time earning for the Avalon miners, of what use is your expensive Avalon mining equipment?

I am looking into the possibility of using the chips to mine for PPCoins. This crypto-currency uses the same hashing algorithm as Bitcoin. In fact, it is derived from Bitcoin source code.

For those who bought Avalon systems, I believe this repurposing would require reprogramming the Spartan-6 Control Unit. Other than this, I don't see any other changes that would be required.

What do you think?

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May 18, 2013, 01:17:42 AM
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You can already mine any of the sha256 cryptocoins just by pointing your Avalon to the correct daemon/pool.

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May 18, 2013, 01:22:01 AM
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Are there Avalon owners already doing this? So it can be done even without modifying the Control Unit?

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May 18, 2013, 09:32:14 PM
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Check out:

http://dustcoin.com/mining
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=146675.0
http://coinchoose.com/
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=152515.0
and
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=172121.0

Please ALWAYS contact me through bitcointalk pm before sending someone coins.
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