Ultra-Low-Cost DIY FPGA Miner - 175MH/s @ $1/MH

[sadpandatech]

TheSeven

That's a crew I have not seen spoken of in a longgggg time......

[cuz0882]

DeepBit: Where are you that you can get $0.03-$0.06 per KwH of electricity?

I pay .0202 a watt in WA state.

[DeathAndTaxes]

DeepBit: Where are you that you can get $0.03-$0.06 per KwH of electricity?

I pay .0202 a watt in WA state.

Sure you do.

[TheSeven]

I now have an FPGA up and running Is there a good miner client out there supporting usb Blaster and long polling. I cant find the one from TheSeven

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23683845/mpbm-0.0.3.zip
But it doesn't support anything except for a trivial RS232 protocol out of the box, you'll have to implement a worker module (using the RS232 one as an example).
If this is related to rph's design, he might have a fitting worker module already.

[ngzhang]

so what i need is to modify this great miner to fit Icarus.

[cuz0882]

DeepBit: Where are you that you can get $0.03-$0.06 per KwH of electricity?

I pay .0202 a watt in WA state.

Sure you do.

Ya, I am sure...and no you can't move here. Only room for one miner in this town....

http://www.douglaspud.org/Service/2011Rates.aspx

[Ferroh]

DeepBit: Where are you that you can get $0.03-$0.06 per KwH of electricity?

I pay .0202 a watt in WA state.

Sure you do.

Ya, I am sure...and no you can't move here. Only room for one miner in this town....

http://www.douglaspud.org/Service/2011Rates.aspx

Take the amount of your last bill and divide it by the number of KWHs on the bill.

What is that number?

[sadpandatech]

DeepBit: Where are you that you can get $0.03-$0.06 per KwH of electricity?

I pay .0202 a watt in WA state.

Sure you do.

Ya, I am sure...and no you can't move here. Only room for one miner in this town....

http://www.douglaspud.org/Service/2011Rates.aspx

Take the amount of your last bill and divide it by the number of KWHs on the bill.

What is that number?

It's an honest report of his basic rate. I went and looked into them just a bit more, fully expecting to see the electric providers there either heavily subsidized or just being really nasty sources of fuel. I was pleasantly surprised to read that they are utilizing primarily renewable sources (hydro electric) and make up for the cost difference by selling the massive surplus of power they output to other companies. It's a win win.
http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2011/jun/01/cheapest-electricity-in-the-entire-country-but/

[Costia]

DeepBit: Where are you that you can get $0.03-$0.06 per KwH of electricity?

I pay .0202 a watt in WA state.

Sure you do.

Ya, I am sure...and no you can't move here. Only room for one miner in this town....

http://www.douglaspud.org/Service/2011Rates.aspx

he doesnt have to move there, just rent an office/servers room. and pay some guy to visit it once a day

[ZodiacDragon84]

or just remote manage it with anubis,,,lol

[johnsmith88]

DeepBit: Where are you that you can get $0.03-$0.06 per KwH of electricity?

I pay .0202 a watt in WA state.

Sure you do.

i pay zero here in sweden we have lots of 'community' areas where you have a standard monthly fee regardless on heat/electricity use. pretty nice

[amazingrando]

DeepBit: Where are you that you can get $0.03-$0.06 per KwH of electricity?

I pay .0202 a watt in WA state.

Sure you do.

i pay zero here in sweden we have lots of 'community' areas where you have a standard monthly fee regardless on heat/electricity use. pretty nice

That's it.  I'm moving to Sweden!! 

[johnsmith88]

haha electricity cheap, everything else expensive. how does $15 for a beer sound?

[daybyter]

Ok...lets make a party...you'll bring the electricity, I'll bring the beer...

[BlackPrapor]

DeepBit: Where are you that you can get $0.03-$0.06 per KwH of electricity?

$0.03 was the 2011 price in Khakasia region and Abakan city, most power there is hydroelectric: http://energyfuture.ru/tarify-na-elektroenergiyu-na-2011-god-xakasiya-abakan
(That's for single-tariff meters. With two-tariff meters it's $0.01 at night)

~$0.06 is the average price for 1 kW*h in flats with electric cooking ovens installed and multi-tariff electric meters in Moscow, Russia.
Currently I'm not there, but I know the rates.

Also, I'm sure that there are regions with even cheaper power. And power can be "free" if you can steal it, which is popular is some places.

Thanks for the info. In Ufa at the same conditions as you described for Moscow, it costs $0,0389. I was wondering how much are solar panels in Australia these days. If you hook up your FPGA cluster to an array of solar panels with batteries (to work 24/7) it will buy itself out, then electricity costs will be $0. I guess it will be feasible only if cheaper version of solar panels are used. Silicon based are quite expensive.

[phr0stbyt3]

So I guess I missed the "Add to cart" link where I buy 36 of these... if you can just point me to it that would be great.
Thx.

[Wandering Albatross]

Were you able to mine btc with the $40 part? Since I've never done anything like this I would rather try with the cheapest parts first.
If I could mine with the cheap parts (i.e. didn't destroy everything in process) then I might do a couple of the cheap ones before graduating my self to the $175 parts.

Are you also mining with the xl150 ($175 part)?

[Wandering Albatross]

i pay zero here in sweden we have lots of 'community' areas where you have a standard monthly fee regardless on heat/electricity use. pretty nice

But the power company can also shut off your clothes washer remotely, in the middle of a wash, during "peak" times. Is this why it's so cheap?
i.e. they spread the power consumption out evenly over 24-hr period.

[TheSeven]

You can actually do about 200MH/s on the LX150-N3, and if you order bulk quantities of that one (100pcs) you'll get it for as low as $115. That's almost 2 MH/$, so almost on par with GPUs. But you'll have to consider the cost of the board, other components, assembly, and time spent on it as well.

[ForceField]

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