Baikal Giant N - Cryptonight, Cryptonight-lite FPGA/ASIC miner

[bambam99]

anyone fixed the problem with high reject rate with nicehash ?

So can I mine cryptonight v7 in lite mode with this unusual hunch of garbage?

I would not call it garbage.. I think it's more profitable than a S15 right now

In what world is my baikal n 40 k/s cryptonite original more profitable than a s15?

sorry, I ment the N-240

[VinZz972]

Actually, it's not too bad with my N+ and nicehash. Around 0.6$ / day (power cost 0.35$) .

[bigslimvdub]

Monero community could be vibrant, but good question is why the monero devs didnt increased the scratchpad size from the current size (2Mb), fpga miners are not affected by this fork

I talked to another cryptonight coin developer about fpga, he said that it's cost prohibitive due to memory restrictions.  So there goes fpga out the door, cause I was thinking fpga too. 

I'm developing many algorithms for the Virtex Ultrascale+ VU9P on the VCU1525 board and this FPGA has 47MB of internal SRAM, enough for 22 instances of Cryptonight V7.  Your developer friend is gravely mistaken.
Having said that, Cryptonight V7 is not the most profitable algorithm for FPGA's at the moment, but high end FPGA's always beat GPU's, and ROI for the high end FPGA's are around 50-110 days vs. years for GPU's.
I will be releasing my bitstreams (to the public) soon, my current plan is to release them for free with a 4% mining fee.  And you would need to buy your own FPGA boards from Avnet/Digikey/Xilinx/Digilent/Hitechglobal/Bittware, etc...

Amazing. Can't wait for that. Do you have an estimated date?

First public-ready algorithms should be done around mid to late June.  However I am hesitant to 'release' the bitstreams unless numerous algorithms are available.  I wouldn't want someone to invest $10K in hardware with only 1 or 2 algorithms in case those coins profit or ROI suddenly changes.  A good investment would be to have 4-5 algorithms available, making the hardware more secure against market changes.
Anyway, once people start mining with PC's linked to numerous high end FPGA cards, they will be 'immune' to forks since the algorithms in the FPGA's can be changed as fast as developers can fork their coin, actually faster in most cases since even a poorly tested rig can still mine, whereas a coin cannot fork until the new setup is heavily tested.

How about those CNLv7 bitstreams?

[DarrenMTB]

If anyone comes up with a legit solutions, I'd be interested. I have 18 N+ miners in my own data center in Southern California.

Has anyone found any legit firmware for new algorithms? Assuming N+ really is an FPGA that is...

I can offer some resources as well, I have a senior level C++ developer that may be able to lend a hand.

[flamehowk]

Hi guys. Tell me, please, is anyone else interested in developing bitstream for CNLv7/8?
I’ll say right away, I don’t know if it’s profitable to mine today at FPGA the coins on CNLv7/8, but if YOU know that it’s profitable, I can take on developing bitstream for this algorithm. From YOU a salary + a test FPGA payment, from me - development. If anyone doubts, the deal can be issued through UpWork. In addition, I am ready to constantly post the results of work. We can break the project into stages.
In general, if it is interesting to someone, let me know, I am just now doing nothing and looking for an employment for myself.

[bigslimvdub]

Hi guys. Tell me, please, is anyone else interested in developing bitstream for CNLv7/8?
I’ll say right away, I don’t know if it’s profitable to mine today at FPGA the coins on CNLv7/8, but if YOU know that it’s profitable, I can take on developing bitstream for this algorithm. From YOU a salary + a test FPGA payment, from me - development. If anyone doubts, the deal can be issued through UpWork. In addition, I am ready to constantly post the results of work. We can break the project into stages.
In general, if it is interesting to someone, let me know, I am just now doing nothing and looking for an employment for myself.

the 4 bitstream developers made their k12 bitstreams for their own products. If you work for a FPGA business, you can make a bitstream and be in the market for Aeon v8 fork.
 

[NinjaCoin.org]

https://www.ninjacoin.org/ download the mobile wallet (cryptonight algo)

[TheFlatline]

Hey all, new here and not very well educated on messing with hardware, but I want to try.

I mined for 18 months or so with my Giant N, and it's been weird and buggy here and there and I think one of my boards is half dead.  Baikal no longer responds to my emails.

Now I cannot interface with the miner.  The main page (logging into the ip in browser) works, but none of the other pages show anything of substance.  Miner/Settings/Backup are all blank minus the Scripta links and Load/Temperature readouts.  

I am hoping to reflash the firmware, but I don't know where to get it, and I've seen the scammer posts here.  I'll continue to try to contact Baikal.

In the meantime, is there anything I can do in Terminal?  I'm raw at BASH but learning.  Further, can I take apart the ASIC and start messing with it?  Where can I learn that?

Thanks in advance.

[miningcoins]

Hi @TheFlatline

Suggest you try the Github Baikal GN40 image off Github (not tried this myself):
https://github.com/baikalminer/GN/tree/master/ornagepi

[TheFlatline]

Hi @TheFlatline

Suggest you try the Github Baikal GN40 image off Github (not tried this myself):
https://github.com/baikalminer/GN/tree/master/ornagepi

Thank you!