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

[parker423]

What is Cryptonight V7 ?

Why the asic cant mine this?

[Goool]

Next week it will be buy 1 and get 50 miners and in 2 weeks they will give them away for free !!

I told you that It is a SCAM this miner.... No one ROI ! Who bought the first day lost the most.

[CryptoDocker]

What is Cryptonight V7 ?

Why the asic cant mine this?

When they made this ASIC it was designed for Cryptonight not Cryptonight V7 which is a POW change

[boxalex]

Is anyone going with the buy 1 get 5 deal? Or considering it? Even though XMR forked there still might be some profit available with other coins and it ships in 7 days

I will give it a try. 1.900 is ok for some risk invest, lol.
Somehow i have a feeling that some coins may fork back or new coins will get on this algo and or new software updates will be made, not that Baikal is know for fast updates :-)))

[ruplikminer]

Is anyone going with the buy 1 get 5 deal? Or considering it? Even though XMR forked there still might be some profit available with other coins and it ships in 7 days

I will give it a try. 1.900 is ok for some risk invest, lol.
Somehow i have a feeling that some coins may fork back or new coins will get on this algo and or new software updates will be made, not that Baikal is know for fast updates :-)))

What risk. This is a total waste of money. All the cryptonight coins have forked or are forking. Why you think Baikal is giving away 5 for the peice of one? This Asic is totally worthless now

[boxalex]

Is anyone going with the buy 1 get 5 deal? Or considering it? Even though XMR forked there still might be some profit available with other coins and it ships in 7 days

I will give it a try. 1.900 is ok for some risk invest, lol.
Somehow i have a feeling that some coins may fork back or new coins will get on this algo and or new software updates will be made, not that Baikal is know for fast updates :-)))

What risk. This is a total waste of money. All the cryptonight coins have forked or are forking. Why you think Baikal is giving away 5 for the peice of one? This Asic is totally worthless now

Maybe, maybe not :-)
As said, i will give it a try and see which coins are leaving on cryptonite and how the new moneros are doing. With 60W i do not care too much at all, neither do they cost USD 10.000.

[igotek]

i paid 3600 USD for one miner and bought 6 miners 15 days ago.

now, 1900 USD for 5 miners.
it s not ethic ! i will not buy. totally disaster.

[boxalex]

i paid 3600 USD for one miner and bought 6 miners 15 days ago.

now, 1900 USD for 5 miners.
it s not ethic ! i will not buy. totally disaster.

Bad deal. I mean when these Baikal N came out the Bitmain Antminer was advertised as well with 3x the price for 10x the hashpower. So in my opinion it didn't make much sense to pay 3.600 USD per unit to be honest.

[skablast]

IF someone would like to buy 1+5 in Europe, I can take one & sharing cost

[percy_tc]

IF someone would like to buy 1+5 in Europe, I can take one & sharing cost

I'm okay to buy 2.

[rednex]

IF someone would like to buy 1+5 in Europe, I can take one & sharing cost

Im ready to buy 1 piece, please contact me

[Bitmarioscoins]

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.

Good work,
what platform you are targeting only Virtex? Some lower end Kintex UltraScale, Kintex UltraScale+ parts have enough internal ram to run at least one instance and they are much more easy to find ready to ship.  
 

The three boards I am going to initially support are the Nexys Video (XC7A200T $490), Avnet AES-KU040-DB-G (Kintex Ultrascale+ $975), and VCU1525 (Virtex VU9P $3995).  I will start a thread soon and list which algorithms will be released for each board (the Virtex can run all the algorithms, the Kintex can run most, the Nexys can only run a few).

My implementations are 100% unrolled pipelines running at one clock cycle per stage.  The ROI on the Kintex and Virtex boards range from 50-150 days based on the algorithm, in today's bear market with 1-2 year ROI's on GPU's.  If the market rises back to Dec/2017 levels, ROI would be ridiculously short.

Please do not purchase any of the above hardware until I announce the official hash rates.  I hope other FPGA developers follow my lead and stop mining in secret and start spreading the wealth.  We need to give crypto back to the people.  With enough people mining with high end FPGA's, Bitmain and Baikal can no longer control the market and screw people over.

Power consumption for 90% usage on the VCU1525 is around 170W.  The best high end rig is a standard mining motherboard with 8 x VCU1525 and a single 1600W power supply.

Are you using OpenCL on the VCU1525?

[treanski]

i paid 3600 USD for one miner and bought 6 miners 15 days ago.

now, 1900 USD for 5 miners.
it s not ethic ! i will not buy. totally disaster.

loooooooooooool stupidity should hurt, than alot people would scream all day

[parker423]

What power supply I can use for the Baikal N.

Where to buy in europe?

Thanks

[andrew1carlssin]

cryptonight needs some very expensive type of memory ... how did you guys sort this problem  

CryptoNight relies on random access to the slow memory and emphasizes latency dependence. Each new block depends on all the previous blocks (unlike, for example, scrypt). The algorithm requires about 2 Mb per instance:

It fits in the L3 cache (per core) of modern processors.
A megabyte of internal memory is almost unacceptable for the modern ASICs.
GPUs may run hundreds of concurrent instances, but they are limited in other ways. GDDR5 memory is slower than the CPU L3 cache and remarkable for its bandwidth, not random access speed.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CryptoNight

[leowonderful]

What power supply I can use for the Baikal N.

Where to buy in europe?

Thanks

The sales page on the Baikal website for the Giant N states you need three 6pin connectors; these can be found on most power supplies- just check the product description of a PSU and you’ll likely find a list of connectors.

I don’t normally recommend molex or SATA to 6pin connectors as neither of these connectors are made to transfer huge amounts of power, but they should work here as the Giant-Ns use just 60w hashing CryptoNight and CryptoNight-N. Best to stick with a server PSU with a breakout board that has 6 pins on it, though, and these should turn up on an Amazon or EBay search for ‘Server PSU’ and ‘Breakout Board’ (note you’ll need to provide six-pin connectors for this unless the whole thing is preassembled or they come with the breakout board).

[Mattthev]

What power supply I can use for the Baikal N.

Where to buy in europe?

Thanks

The sales page on the Baikal website for the Giant N states you need three 6pin connectors; these can be found on most power supplies- just check the product description of a PSU and you’ll likely find a list of connectors.

I don’t normally recommend molex or SATA to 6pin connectors as neither of these connectors are made to transfer huge amounts of power, but they should work here as the Giant-Ns use just 60w hashing CryptoNight and CryptoNight-N. Best to stick with a server PSU with a breakout board that has 6 pins on it, though, and these should turn up on an Amazon or EBay search for ‘Server PSU’ and ‘Breakout Board’ (note you’ll need to provide six-pin connectors for this unless the whole thing is preassembled or they come with the breakout board).

Molex -> 6pin -> 3x 6pin should be fine also. Those 2 adapters that come with Giant N are good.

[Rabinovitch]

Guys, we will have the coin to mine with Cryptonight ASICs. XMC. So it looks that this is safe to buy some cryptonight ASICs. Now, when we can buy 1 and get 5....  

BTW: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/monero-just-hard-forked-and-it-resulted-four-new-projects/

[Mattthev]

Guys, we will have the coin to mine with Cryptonight ASICs. XMC. So it looks that this is safe to buy some cryptonight ASICs. Now, when we can buy 1 and get 5....  

BTW: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/monero-just-hard-forked-and-it-resulted-four-new-projects/

It will be probably pretty much shitcoin but probably with good value

[skablast]

Percy, a friend of mine can take 1, so we are at 5 if the newbie take one or someone else join
I am ready to send you € by paypal or crypto in ADVANCE if you would like to proceed with the 1x5 order as you have 50 times the Merit that I have and I think you prefer to receive those ASAP and then send to me rather then the opposite

Let me know