The first one FTC USB block erupters be born, about 240Khash
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very cool! but $240 for 240 khs is kinda high,but i bet the power savings are great.
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if i remember correctly it was around 2w pr unit. meaning those 240khashes only use 8w… have gpu’s beaten on that part ;D
Great work lizhi for keeping us up to date!
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[quote name=“jordanjkj” post=“46176” timestamp=“1387466057”]
very cool! but $240 for 240 khs is kinda high,but i bet the power savings are great.
[/quote]These aren’t for mass consumption. They’re engineering samples for enthusiasts. The next step is taping out an ASIC from this design, from which you can expect to get anywhere from 2x to 10x the performace at 1/2 to 1/4 the power consumption. I imagine they’re selling these in order to raise the money to do this. Then we’ll see savings.
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sweet
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[quote name=“Kevlar” post=“46219” timestamp=“1387477599”]
[quote author=jordanjkj link=topic=6202.msg46176#msg46176 date=1387466057]
very cool! but $240 for 240 khs is kinda high,but i bet the power savings are great.
[/quote]These aren’t for mass consumption. They’re engineering samples for enthusiasts. The next step is taping out an ASIC from this design, from which you can expect to get anywhere from 2x to 10x the performace at 1/2 to 1/4 the power consumption. I imagine they’re selling these in order to raise the money to do this. Then we’ll see savings.
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As long as the final price isnt astronomical then ill probably grab a few. idk what im going to do next summer,mining in texas during that time will make my apartment a sauna. -
Sell them exclusively on the FTC Marketplace. I’ll buy a few. :)
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I’d love to buy one! This would be great for mining on my laptop.
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Nice Development :o
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Would love to buy one :)
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im going to buy one and see if it is good as it says. and if im happy i be probably buying 1 new unit each months
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would like to get one of those…
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Give this man some rep.
Bump for pure awesomeness. Staying top of the list.
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Wow!
You gotta message the forum when these things start going up for presale.
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[quote name=“justgeig” post=“46175” timestamp=“1387465848”]
for now at least, $240 is better spent on a GPU that can get more than 240Khash. It’s good to know what’s coming though. I imagine the technology will evolve pretty quickly and could leave GPU mining in the dust.
[/quote]If you break down the price, that’s very reasonable. I spent $2000 on a 1.8~2.0 MH/s rig for scrypt with conventional GPU tech that eats 750 watts of power.
His Scrypt Erupters cost exactly the same per KH/s, minus the electricity expenses so his technology is actually the same price in the short term and less expensive in the long term. Sign me up for 10. :)
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Would also like to be contacted if you do a pre-sale on some of these.
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This fellow here has been mining LTC for a while with custom boards:
[url=http://ltcgear.com/]http://ltcgear.com/[/url]
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[quote name=“Matl” post=“47091” timestamp=“1387811834”]
This fellow here has been mining LTC for a while with custom boards:
[url=http://ltcgear.com/]http://ltcgear.com/[/url]
He also has a farmshare option.
[/quote]Too bad these are not even that much better than an optimized gpu. I have pushed upwards of 4KHs/watt and I am sure if I took a high end card and really worked with it I could get within 20% of that FPGAs KH/watt ratio.
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The latest official version, It have five chip,about 300Khash. Price undetermined.
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[quote name=“lizhi” post=“47100” timestamp=“1387813798”]
The latest official version, It have five chip,about 300Khash. Price undetermined.
[/quote] okey so 1.75G x5 BTC mode 60k x5 scrypt mode. if its above 300$ is way to overpriced.you could go whit 2x 7970 used around 175$ each and make around same profit.
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[quote name=“lizhi” post=“47100” timestamp=“1387813798”]
The latest official version, It have five chip,about 300Khash. Price undetermined.
[/quote]Thanks for keeping us up on this. Is there any talk of volume orders? Is there a chance with your locality you might get hand on units quicker than the rest of us and be able to resell?
