Putting a Bounty on a Modified Version for RandomX or another ALGO (AntMiner)

[i-hoard-machines]

People don't pay attention at all. Someone made an exploit for AntMiner S1 (bm1380) chips. https://mightydevices.com/index.php/2018/02/reverse-engineering-antminer-s1/

The source code is there, I want someone to see if they can change the code for RandomX or another profitable algorithm that would work. I have 2 S1s, I could test this on. The proof is here. If someone figures it out for RandomX, we could have at least 75kh.

Whoever successfully changes the algorithm, will receive an unspecified amount in BTC. Good luck!

[i-hoard-machines]

I am not trolling. Read the article and you will see. It could be possible. At least for the S1.

[i-hoard-machines]

This should help everyone involved. https://github.com/AntMiner/AntGen1
https://github.com/MightyDevices/mightyminer

[paid2]

You should post this topic in the Altcoin Mining section, RandomX has nothing to do with BTC and SHA256.

I didn't find any mention to RandomX in your first link?
I only looked very briefly, maybe I'm wrong but I don't want to waste my time to be honest, I appreciate any form of reverse engineering but when it comes to RandomX it's still a big waste of time so far.

In my opinion you can't start with an ASIC SHA256 and make it mine RandomX which is ASIC-resistant as well.

A few years ago I was in contact with a guy from Russia. He was sending videos to all his contacts to show that he managed to mine RandomX with an Antminer X3 with a really impressive hashrate. He claimed to have modified the firmware, and show workers pages with crazy hashrate on MoneroOcean pool.

The reality was that it was a fake, that the guy was just editing videos and never made it. I think in real life he never really tried to be honest.
He disappeared overnight and then we found out from a third party that this guy was just using a huge amount of botnets, and he was trying to sell his so-called "custom firmware" for Antminer X3 to inexperienced newbies.

That's the whole point of RandomX, to be ASIC resistant, and if a flaw had been found, I think we'd all know about it.

PS : Goodluck to try to give motivation to developpers with a Bounty you don't even give the amount

[i-hoard-machines]

At this point, I will accept any algo other than SHA-256. If someone finds a way to do it, I will reward some BTC to them. Good luck.

[JayDDee]

It is a troll.

This is not an exploit. It claims to be a mining front end for the ASICs that optimizes the communications protocol but I haven't analyzed the code.
This optimization has nothing to do with the ASIC chips or the POW algorithm.

You can't change the algorithm of an ASIC, that why it's called Application Specific Integrated Circuit. An ASIC for SHA256D will only ever mine SHA256D,
no matter how high the bounty.

[babymethyl2013]

You should post this topic in the Altcoin Mining section, RandomX has nothing to do with BTC and SHA256.

I didn't find any mention to RandomX in your first link?
I only looked very briefly, maybe I'm wrong but I don't want to waste my time to be honest, I appreciate any form of reverse engineering but when it comes to RandomX it's still a big waste of time so far.

In my opinion you can't start with an ASIC SHA256 and make it mine RandomX which is ASIC-resistant as well.

A few years ago I was in contact with a guy from Russia. He was sending videos to all his contacts to show that he managed to mine RandomX with an Antminer X3 with a really impressive hashrate. He claimed to have modified the firmware, and show workers pages with crazy hashrate on MoneroOcean pool.

The reality was that it was a fake, that the guy was just editing videos and never made it. I think in real life he never really tried to be honest.
He disappeared overnight and then we found out from a third party that this guy was just using a huge amount of botnets, and he was trying to sell his so-called "custom firmware" for Antminer X3 to inexperienced newbies.

That's the whole point of RandomX, to be ASIC resistant, and if a flaw had been found, I think we'd all know about it.

PS : Goodluck to try to give motivation to developpers with a Bounty you don't even give the amount

Did anyone ever manage to get the X3 to mine cryptonight variants? CNv2 there was a similar video on YouTube showing something similar with the X3 mining XMR after it had changed algos before randomX

I imagine it was also fake?

[i-hoard-machines]

I still would like someone to look over the code. I have a feeling that the S1 chips were never hard-coded for Sha256D. You would just have to change the firmware. That's why I linked these sources. We shouldn't just assume the S1 is hard-coded, because it was one of the first ASIC miners. This is 2013 technology. It could be possible. Bounty is still active.

[JayDDee]

I still would like someone to look over the code. I have a feeling that the S1 chips were never hard-coded for Sha256D. You would just have to change the firmware. That's why I linked these sources. We shouldn't just assume the S1 is hard-coded, because it was one of the first ASIC miners. This is 2013 technology. It could be possible. Bounty is still active.

ASICs are hard wired, they are not programmable. Don't be an idiot.

[i-hoard-machines]

I will try it myself. Stay tuned, the bounty is still active.

[miner29]

What op should consider is an FPGA as they can be reprogrammed for different algos….an Asic as others have noted CANNOT.

If you bothered to read the article you linked too the author is only working on the cummincations with the Asic.  It DOES not change the Asic at all only the software communicating with it.  This will not let you mine any other algo thst is not SHA256…nor does the article make such a claim… because anyone who understands the hardware understands it is hard coded into the ASIC itself and cannot be changed.  The article makes no claim of anything but updating the communication to asic and allowing him to mine SHA256.

Asking it to do RandomX or any other algo that is not SHA256 is simply not an option.