DIY FPGA Mining rig for any algorithm with fast ROI

[Rabinovitch]

************** UPDATE JUNE 2/2018 ********************
The website and initial downloads are now available at:
www.zetheron.com

PLEASE REALIZE THAT TO ACHIEVE THE FULL ADVERTISED HASH RATES REQUIRES EXTENSIVE MODIFICATIONS TO THE STOCK VCU1525 BOARD, as described here:
http://zetheron.com/index.php/hardware-modifications/

If you are interested in exploring FPGA mining, it is strongly recommended that you reach each page on the website in detail.

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I am also releasing bitstreams for the Avnet KU040 FPGA board and the Nexys Video FPGA board, although due to the small size of those FPGA's they can only mine a couple of algorithms profitably, and if you are serious I suggest a VU9P board.  If you are skeptical then I suggest just waiting until someone else you know has an FPGA rig up and running and you can make a decision then.  Keep in mind these chips are fully reprogrammable and can mine any algorithm.  A lot people are mining with them in secret.  I hope others follow my lead and start to release their software/bitstreams publicly.  I also suggest searching non-English forums and trying to convince the others who are using these cards to publish their software.

Once the community has switched over to high end FPGA's, crypto as a whole will be far more ASIC resistant, because developing an ASIC will then have a poor ROI.  Consider that this 8 x VCU1525 can mine Skein and Myriad-Groestl and make about $7 per card per day ($56/day for the rig); not a great profit, but that is amazing considering you are competing directly against Baikal X10's which are ASIC machines.  The fact that you can still make a profit (with FPGA's) when mining directly against an ASIC shows how this technology can change the crypto landscape.  

Please forgive me if I am slow to respond to PM's, I am quite busy.

Thank you for your great effort! Is there any website where anyone can download all your released bitstreams for all FPGA boards you have developed the bitstreams for? I see only Keccak on http://zetheron.com.

[jmigdlc99]

Thank you for your great effort! Is there any website where anyone can download all your released bitstreams for all FPGA boards you have developed the bitstreams for? I see only Keccak on http://zetheron.com.

Not sure if i remember correctly but you might have some luck checking out the FPGA discord group: (https://discord.gg/25DpDCS). Not sure if thats where i saw it, but i once saw downloads links to bitstreams from that or some other discord group.

Anyway, just stumbled upon the Zetheron website recently. Congratulations to whitefire, senseless, GPUhoarder, and everyone else that has pushed this to succeed. Hopefully this is a step towards further decentralization away from ASICS.

[Rabinovitch]

Not sure if i remember correctly but you might have some luck checking out the FPGA discord group: (https://discord.gg/25DpDCS). Not sure if thats where i saw it, but i once saw downloads links to bitstreams from that or some other discord group.

Anyway, just stumbled upon the Zetheron website recently. Congratulations to whitefire, senseless, GPUhoarder, and everyone else that has pushed this to succeed. Hopefully this is a step towards further decentralization away from ASICS.

I'll check it, of course, thanx. Don't get me wrong, but I hope that 4% fee is high enough to make all possible downloads easily accessible for each potential donator (aka cryptoFPGA end user)...

[danl999]

>Next up on my implementation list is SHA-224 and Neoscrypt.

Hi, I'm Dan, an engineer at StarDot Technologies. I wrote a 100% parallel H.264, jpeg, and color processing for our cameras.  

Our boss has become interested in digital coins.  He's even got mining farms!  

He wanted to know if we could productize digital coin mining into the "internet of things".  He's hoping to add transactions to the block chain, so his mining farms earn more money for more years.  

It's pretty easy to make a $50 ethereum mining card (cost) using one fpga (we get excellent prices on Xilinx), a raspberry pi style linux, and 4 out of date (cheaper) memory cards.  It'd be as wide of memory as the 1070 cards but with 1/4th the memory speed.  

As an add-on to another device, it could be good.  Here's an example. Tokyo is covered in Pachinko machine businesses, which have  rooms filled with the machines, and men sitting there playing all day long for valuable prizes (which they sell out the back to circumvent gambling laws).

Why not add that low cost mining card to some of those, and let them earn money from whatever is the best coin to mine that day. Easy to make them change if they're hooked to the network and FPGA based.

When the machines in that business (all together) earn a full coin, they'd give it out in response to a certain level of play, lighting up and making all kinds of noises where the win takes place.  Owners would be motivated to buy more of that type of machine, so the fireworks payout would happen more often.   And, it would add more transactions to the block chain, which is good for all of us.

Many such other things are possible.  But the hardware needs to be open source, flexible, and a lot less expensive.

I'm designing such devices, but I've only looked at bitcoin and ethereum algorithms in detail.   Could you tell me, are any of the coin algorithms you're aware of,  bus transfer intensive?  Do I need a faster interface to get data into the FPGA during operation?  I don't with ethereum or bitcoin.

I'd hate to design it with a bottleneck which prevented mining some newer coins.

[melpheos]

Hi there! Since cryptocurrency is really popular these days the new products keep emerging every day. Just look at Paytomat! I have been reading about this product a lot and what I can say is that Paytomat team consists of experienced crypto entrepreneurs, blockchain evangelists, retails specialists and marketers! You just have to check it out)

You know this is getting anoying
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2212389;sa=showPosts

[Cafe3d]

just got the water cooling block designed for VCU1525
And test with Tribus algo at hashrate 1.8GH, the temperature keeps under 45 C


f l i c. k r/p/LtEhJ9
http://s1380.photobucket.com/user/cafe3d/library/

it keeps showing [Suspicious link removed] and it really drives me crazy

[Frankie001]

Hi there! Since cryptocurrency is really popular these days the new products keep emerging every day. Just look at Paytomat! I have been reading about this product a lot and what I can say is that Paytomat team consists of experienced crypto entrepreneurs, blockchain evangelists, retails specialists and marketers! You just have to check it out)

You know this is getting anoying
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2212389;sa=showPosts

Wow, that's all he posts about, shiller  of note 

[melpheos]

just got the water cooling block designed for VCU1525
And test with Tribus algo at hashrate 1.8GH, the temperature keeps under 45 C


/p/LtEhJ9]https://[Suspicious link removed]/p/LtEhJ9

May I ask where you bought it ?
I still have a pump and a radiator for the time I was watercooling my computer

[Cafe3d]

just got the water cooling block designed for VCU1525
And test with Tribus algo at hashrate 1.8GH, the temperature keeps under 45 C


/p/LtEhJ9]https://[Suspicious link removed]/p/LtEhJ9

May I ask where you bought it ?
I still have a pump and a radiator for the time I was watercooling my computer

I asked a vendor to make a sample of waterblock

[CNATS]

just got the water cooling block designed for VCU1525
And test with Tribus algo at hashrate 1.8GH, the temperature keeps under 45 C

Looks good, can you share more details on the block and any challenges you faced installing it?

[mineroc]

just got the water cooling block designed for VCU1525
And test with Tribus algo at hashrate 1.8GH, the temperature keeps under 45 C


f l i c. k r/p/LtEhJ9
http://s1380.photobucket.com/user/cafe3d/library/

it keeps showing [Suspicious link removed] and it really drives me crazy

Looks good.  How dimensionally stable is that plexi/polycarb under temp?  How big is this chip?  Reminds me of PII processors

[ik]

<cut some unrelevant stuff>
XUPP3R-VU9P crypto version is $5895 USD, and has two advantages over the VCU1525: (1) it has four QSFP28 100G ports so you can daisy chain 4 FPGA's
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Dear whitefire990, in what country these cards are manufactured  and where are the chips from ? Is there anyway to find a similar hardware from our wonderful Chinese friends with some discounts ?
I did some quick search, looks like they manufacture something ..

thanks

[R0land]

New mining hardware is coming soon    :
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/flex-logix-eflx4k-io-efpga-core-enables-very-wide-bus-connections-for-networking-applications-300672089.html
The Flex Logix EFLX4K IO eFPGA Core can  connect to a 1000+ bit wide bus all on one side ! You can create an arrayable solution from a single array  to at least a 7x7 array.

I also read news about an ASIC connected with 1024bit HBM2 RAM and more than 1 TB/s bandwith  .

It´s always the same CPU -> GPU -> FPGA -> ASIC .

[dhouse]

is anyone who bought one of these actually hashing on one of these things yet?

[LTCMAXMYR]

Is lyra2z finished? What are the hashrate and power consumption?

[m5]

is anyone who bought one of these actually hashing on one of these things yet?

Hi,
I tried Tribus yesterday, it works fine with 1 thread of 600 MH/s. With 2 threads the miner started throttling as the temperature reached 85 degress celsius. 3 threads (1.8 GH/s) are possible, but I have to tune my cooling and lower VCCINT.

[Wattiejf]

Not sure what to make of this....hmm  https://youtu.be/gYcibe6zDQk

[MangoLife]

woah nice thread! So goona have a good read of this.

FPGA info is limited I find. Really keen to get into it. So much scope.

[GPUHoarder]

Not sure what to make of this....hmm  https://youtu.be/gYcibe6zDQk

Having torn down a Z9 Mini Chip. No

[Andartis]

Can someone explain how to read specs of a FPGA? I know to read and compare GPU specs and tell what is "good", "fast", "if this is high, its good for mining this or that"...