Questions tagged [fpga-development]

questions about the time, cost and profitability of developing FPGAs for Monero. Often as a stepping stone to asic-development

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Approximate cost of developing Cryptonight ASICs

I have already seen reasons why Cryptonight is more resistant to ASICs as compared to SHA256 for example: Cryptonight takes advantage of the AES-NI instruction set available on most modern machines Cryptonight limits parallelizing hashes due to…

asked Jul 21 '16 at 22:05

user22576

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Hash rate of three million mining Monero?

Is this article truthful when it quotes a hash rate of three million when mining Monero? If so, what is the way to learn and apply the RandomX algorithm in FPGA hardware? What knowledge is required? BitHull-Overtakes-ASIC-Market-with-New-FPGA-Miners

hashrate algorithm random-x fpga-mining fpga-development

asked Dec 14 '20 at 08:14

James Pasinski