[ANN][BLC] Blakecoin Blake-256 for GPU/FPGA With Merged Mined Pools Stable Net

[BlueDragon747]

someone is blocking minimum daily volume on Bittrex so if it gets delisted dont blame me  

atm it is costing me $5-$10 per month in fees to keep it listed without some people doing dirty tricks which can triple that cost

last time I spoke with Chris/Bill my agreement is simple take up any slack in minimum volume of 0.2 BTC per day but past few months some people have been gaming this for profit and now that has led to blocking of any trades too (due to buy/sell walls)  

this is just not cool at all just trying to do this project along with game dev with limited funds and resources, I did not mind taking up slack as I see it as a chore to be done each day but some people are really taking the piss and its not cool at all  

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much better thanks all  

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[Equalizer1970]

I think BlakeTrader is down. Just a fyi.

[electron-coin]

Oh, let me check on it

Edit: the transaction daemon hung so I had to reset it. Should be working now.

[Equalizer1970]

Oh, let me check on it

Edit: the transaction daemon hung so I had to reset it. Should be working now.

Thanks. That did the trick.

[cinnamon_carter]

Whats new , I am back from vacation and catching up on everything online .....

[BlueDragon747]

Whats new , I am back from vacation and catching up on everything online .....

welcome back hope you had a good vacation  

things have been running stable so not much new 

will have some news later this month on some side projects  

[MonCoin]

Whats new , I am back from vacation and catching up on everything online .....

welcome back hope you had a good vacation  

things have been running stable so not much new 

will have some news later this month on some side projects  

Any one knows if BLC will e listed in Poloniex??

[BlueDragon747]

Whats new , I am back from vacation and catching up on everything online .....

welcome back hope you had a good vacation  

things have been running stable so not much new 

will have some news later this month on some side projects  

Any one knows if BLC will e listed in Poloniex??

I think that is unlikely any time soon 

[bzyzny]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10412/razer-exhibits-osvr-hdk2-vr-headset-and-5-million-developer-fund-at-e3-2016

Maybe u could get a piece of that developer fund to make blakezone for vr

[BlueDragon747]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10412/razer-exhibits-osvr-hdk2-vr-headset-and-5-million-developer-fund-at-e3-2016

Maybe u could get a piece of that developer fund to make blakezone for vr

wishful thinking  

I do have the OSVR plugin on my unity account so could add support to blakezone so will check out what you need to qualify *can already add VR support to current client but I do suspect frame rate could be dire due to extra rendering of cameras and unity core is still weak on multi threading so wip on engine side still!  

only issue I have with VR is there is no clear leader and many gamers just dont have the same headsets(if any) so you could spend alot of time on support and the current market size is today tiny although hyped and growing  

one thing that is cool is lower price of ownership with that headset regardless of any developer fund for content creators ($5M is not a lot they could easy blow that on a couple of big titles/studios adding support)

"an Ubisoft executive gave a breakdown of the company's average development costs per game - with a DS title costing between 500,000 to 1,000,000 euros ($785,000-$1.57m), PS3/Xbox 360/PC titles averaging 12 million to 18 million euros ($18.8m-$28.2m) to create for all 3 SKUs"

Here’s the problem as I see it: Production values have risen to a level that games are starting to cost $3 million to $10 million to produce. Double this amount to get the true cost to a company, by the time they promote and manufacture the product. At this level, companies can’t afford to take chances on defining new categories.

Project Scorpio is targeting VR and is reported to have 6 Teraflops(AMD SoC), this is a refresh of xbox one and is supposed to make win 10 DX12 titles easy to port  

[dbt1033]

Excited about the side projects news later this month.  Glad to see BLC still alive and kickin.  Thank you Blue and others

[bzyzny]

I grasp enough to guess this might be great at hashing blake-256, but am wondering if anyone can estimate how it would compare to GPU/FPGA for performance/efficiency? I see no indication of price or availability, so its purely an intellectual exercise for now.

https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/worlds-first-1000-processor-chip

http://vcl.ece.ucdavis.edu/pubs/2016.06.vlsi.symp.kiloCore/2016.vlsi.symp.kiloCore.pdf

[BlueDragon747]

I grasp enough to guess this might be great at hashing blake-256, but am wondering if anyone can estimate how it would compare to GPU/FPGA for performance/efficiency? I see no indication of price or availability, so its purely an intellectual exercise for now.

https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/worlds-first-1000-processor-chip

http://vcl.ece.ucdavis.edu/pubs/2016.06.vlsi.symp.kiloCore/2016.vlsi.symp.kiloCore.pdf

GPU is easier to do as we can estimate the MIMD performance based on FLOPS

Adapteva Epiphany 28nm MIMD 64 CPUs does @ 1GHz ~2 GFLOPS Compute
KiloCore 32nm MIMD 1000 CPUs @ 1.78GHz *estimate ~ 56 GFLOPS Compute (1 trillion IPS @ 13.1 W or 115 billion IPS @ 0.7 W) **might be able to get better estimate if converted IPS to FLOPS  
AMD RX 480 (Polaris) 14nm @ 1.266Ghz ~ 5.8 TFLOPS Compute
Nvidia 1080 (Pascal) 16nm @ 1.683GHz ~ 8.9 TFLOPS Compute

FPGA might beat GPU in watt/hash but to scale cost of ownership is currently imho with GPU Rigs

**AMD RX 470 looks good for cost ~ 5 TFLOPS @ ~$150 6 card rig ~ 30 TFLOPS ~$900 + Mboard/Ram/CPU/PSU *estimate about 18GH/s+ using somewhere between 550w-700w
***AMD RX 480 or Nvidia 1080/1070 all cost more and if looking at TFLOPS/$ then imho AMD RX 470 might be sweet spot assuming multi GPU mining rigs and a retail price of $150 per card but time will tell waiting on real world 3rd party reviews (power use/performance/retail cost)  

Current benchmark for Nvidia 1080 hashing 8 round Blake-256
Current benchmark for AMD RX 480 hashing 8 round Blake-256
Current quad FPGA(45nm) board hashing 8 round Blake-256 is using about 27W doing 1.4GH/s-1.5GH/s ~325W for 18GH/s as a comparison to the GPU's power use (+watts for PC hosting the FPGA cluster)

dont forget also when we are looking at power use a good efficient PSU can make all the difference as none are 100% most 80%-90% so at wall power use can vary

[BlueDragon747]

working on the BlakeZone site adding stuff for the side projects along with a new alpha tier expect some downtime

hope to have some updates on progress early next week  

[BlueDragon747]

did not get much done over weekend still working on the new alpha tier and also need to do the forums for side projects and terms of use

closer but not there yet  


 

[sidgrip]

did not get much done over weekend still working on the new alpha tier and also need to do the forums for side projects and terms of use

closer but not there yet  


 

No Worries sir!   

[bzyzny]

Am curious what this side project is, any news or details you can share?

[BlueDragon747]

sorry not going to hype the side projects or give too many detail publicly until they start alpha and the invites go out

side projects = multiplayer and casual games 5 in the works but 3 progressing and 2 stalled

currently been dealing with some stuff irl so progress is bit slow 

 

[MonCoin]

sorry not going to hype the side projects or give too many detail publicly until they start alpha and the invites go out

side projects = multiplayer and casual games 5 in the works but 3 progressing and 2 stalled

currently been dealing with some stuff irl so progress is bit slow 

 

Any plan to hav BLC in Poloniex or other platform

[BlueDragon747]

sorry not going to hype the side projects or give too many detail publicly until they start alpha and the invites go out

side projects = multiplayer and casual games 5 in the works but 3 progressing and 2 stalled

currently been dealing with some stuff irl so progress is bit slow  

 

Any plan to hav BLC in Poloniex or other platform

Any one knows if BLC will e listed in Poloniex??

I think that is unlikely any time soon  

for now its just:

Exchanges

BlakeTrader allows trading of Blakecoin directly with other Blake family coins  
www.blaketrader.com

Bittrex allows trading of Blakecoin
www.bittrex.com

Cryptomic allows trading of Blakecoin
www.cryptomic.com

Cryptopia allows trading of Blakecoin
www.cryptopia.co.nz  

AskCoin allows trading of Blakecoin
askcoin.net

Your more than welcome to get BLC listed on "Poloniex or other platform" if you want