Posts made by Chirale

Hello! I have been a member of the the feathercoin forum for many years, but I must admit that I went awol for a while! I was pleased to see that you still have my email in you database!
I am slowly getting back into mining and hopefully some cool feather/crypto project! good luck to everyone!
P.S.
are we still meeting in Oxford (or anywhere else in in UK)??

Mining FTC with gridiseed 5 chips miners running on Scripta!

Full post here: https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=9908.msg138195#msg138195

Fantastic! Respect to the hanging rig!

Uncle_muddy,
Pool and raffle are great! I will redirect my FTC miners to your pool from tonight!
Looking forward catching up at the Oxford blue!
Bye

[quote name=“PolybiusSquare” post=“56754” timestamp=“1391396515”]
So $260 for the two boards alone - for 142 KH/s ??? :-[
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I am not suggesting to buy them, just proving that you can mine FTC with ltcgear.com products.
I have scryptor8x (light), but ltcgear is currently selling 300KH/s units (250$) or 1.5MH/s units (1497$).

P.S.
As I stated before I believe that GPU mining is still great for FTC, but it is important to know what hardware will be available when people start looking in to FPGA/ASIC…

Dear Feathercoin community,
I have tried to mine FTC with ltcgear.com products (scriptor8x light) and they work just fine!

These is my setup:

1. Two Scriptor8x boards ([b]light version[/b], much slower than scripto8x full - currently available)
2. Raspberry PI model B running with Scripta (Litecoin mining distro for Raspberry PI: [url=https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=9908.0]https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=9908.0[/url])
3. D-Link 7-Port USB 2.0 Hub (DUB-H7)
4. Power supply (Check this link to run it without mother board: [url=http://www.overclockersclub.com/guides/atx_psu_startup/]http://www.overclockersclub.com/guides/atx_psu_startup/[/url]
5. 50mm PCB Spacer Hex Stand-Off Pillar

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/uWnVsmZ.jpg[/img]

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/HPPYLvM.jpg[/img]

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/EehBAMc.jpg[/img]

[quote name=“krasticrypto” post=“56003” timestamp=“1391078129”]
this london based company sells Gridseed ASIC
http://hashra.com/gridseed-3000-kh-s-asic-scrypt-sha-miner/
the website says they are strting shipping as soon as Chinese New Year holiday is over.
my mate e-mailed these guys, they replied:
[i]right now the units you see in the pictures and video are with our supplier in China. We do not have them in London I’m afraid. We will be heading ourselves to Hong Kong in a few days and we will get more footage and pictures then. Thanks[/i]
p.s.
I made a new post about this as I was unaware of this very good comprehensive post. Apologies, I don’t intend advertise them or clatter the forum…
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Well spotted! I didn’t know about it and I will add them to the list as potential distributors of gridseed products. It remains unclear who are official distributors and who are resellers… time (and price) will tell!

The other interesting products which may be soon tested for FTC mining are Scryptor8x from ltcgear.com
I am mentioning ltcgear units (FPGA) because people have received his units and confirmed they works fine with LTC. No other producer has shipped anything so far…

Official website: [url=http://ltcgear.com/]http://ltcgear.com/[/url]
Litecoin forum: https://litecointalk.org/index.php/topic,6401.0.html

Of note: beekepeer (the person behind ltcgear) has previously proposed a feathercoin farm on this thread, so his units are probably able to mine also FTC, but I don’t have any evidence yet!

Feathercoinf forum: http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php/topic,4109.0.html

[quote name=“wrapper” post=“55552” timestamp=“1390855614”]
Great post, re: Scypt ASICs - I’ve pinned it for more exposure …
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Wow! Thank you very much wrapper!

[quote name=“surfguy72” post=“55492” timestamp=“1390837419”]
I’m not sure if it was purposely omitted or by accident, but Alpha Technologies is introducing a script ASIC. Not due still til June or so. But since its still not close to market yet, maybe thats why you didn’t include it.
Alpha-t.net
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surfguy72,
The complete list of Scrypt FPGA/ASIC developers is here:

https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=6506.0

These are products developed for the LTC community, but they are most likely also suitable for FTC mining! On this forum I decided to include only products that have been proven to mine FTC. Hence the gridseed-based products. If alphaTechnology states (of even better shows) that their units can mine also FTC I will be happy to add them to the list. At present their products are not ready, so it would be pure speculation… Thank you

[quote name=“ken” post=“55298” timestamp=“1390756636”]
I’d love to see power compulsion added to the list for each ASIC. At this point that is the only advantage they have over gpu’s. Price per KH/s is no better, and they are worthless once they are outdated (unlike gpu’s which retain value for gaming).
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Tnx Ken! It is a good idea…I’ll see what I can find!

[quote name=“Calem” post=“55220” timestamp=“1390738851”]
[quote author=Chirale link=topic=7205.msg55175#msg55175 date=1390730171]
I personally think it is early days for FTC and asic mining (given the difficult so low), but I believe that it is important to know what is out there!
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Good job with the post!
If you would like to take it upon yourself to be the official scrypt asic/fpga documenter, I think that would be awesome =^-^=
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I would be very happy to do it! this is also what I have been doing on the LTC forum.
tnx!

[quote name=“StrangeAtoms” post=“55143” timestamp=“1390722421”]
Thanks for the link. Been meaning to start looking into ASIC’s as the GPU mining days are coming to an end. However I sincerely hope that scrypt currencies change the algorithm as it just won’t be the same without GPU’s :'(
+1 Rep for the great post
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I personally think it is early days for FTC and asic mining (given the difficult so low), but I believe that it is important to know what is out there!

[quote name=“Calem” post=“55144” timestamp=“1390723012”]
[quote author=Chirale link=topic=7205.msg55099#msg55099 date=1390695431]
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I would like to see you edit you post above to include this list if your ok with that.
I think it would make a nice resource here on the forum.
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No prob! I’ll be happy to edit and update the thread regularly. The only thing I would suggest is that I include only the products that have been shown to be able to mine FTC. This means that I will start the list with gridseed product and in the context of this forum this means the post started by “lizhi”. I think it would confusing if I upload the listwith all the scrypt FPGA/ASIC producer whithout any evidence that they can mine FTC. tnx

Wll done guys, this is looking good.
Where are you getting these units from? Asiabtc (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421921.0), diginforce or directly from gridseed?

Tnx

It was great to meet the Oxford community!

Hello guys!
I had the pleasure to meet members of the Feathercoin community today at the Oxford Blue and following the productive discussions I decided to post something about the current Scrypt FPGA/ASIC miner developers. Most of these project have been discussed across the Litecoin and Bitcoin forum, but I suspect that at some point they will be also relevant for the Feathercoin community (unless you change the algorithm, making the FTC “resistant” to ASIC).

This is the link to the full list of LTC (Scrypt) FPGA/ASIC miner developers:
[url=https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=6506.0]https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=6506.0[/url]

**Please find below the list of Scrypt FPGA/ASIC miners that have been shown to mine Feathercoin! **

(at present lizhi has shown that gridseed chips can mine FTC! Therefore I have included all the gridseed-based projects to the list, but lizhi has used the developer boards directly from gridseed and not the other producers: [url=http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php/topic,6202.0.html]http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php/topic,6202.0.html[/url]. lizhi correct me if I am wrong!).
Note: Please check out for yourself if the developers are trustworthy. I only listed them.

[table]
[tr]
[th]Project Name[/th]
[th]Forum User[/th]
[th]Thread[/th]
[th]Status[/th]
[th]Product[/th]
[th]Cost[/th]
[th]Website[/th]
[th]Shipping[/th]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Gridseed[/td]
[td]n/a[/td]
[td][url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=355268.0]https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=355268.0[/url][/td]
[td]Ongoing[/td]
[td]60-70kH/sec (per chip)[/td]
[td]$66[/td]
[td][url=http://gridseed.com/main.php]http://gridseed.com[/url][/td]
[td]0.44W[/td]
[td]Ongoing[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Cybtc[/td]
[td]n/a[/td]
[td][url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=355268.0]https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=355268.0[/url][/td]
[td]Ongoing[/td]
[td]300kH/sec[/td]
[td]CNY 11198??[/td]
[td][url=http://cybtc.com/it618_scoremall-scoremall_page.html?pid=36]http://cybtc.com[/url][/td]
[td]8-10W (?)[/td]
[td]Ongoing[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]DualMiner[/td]
[td]dualminer[/td]
[td][url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=409756.0]https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=409756.0[/url][/td]
[td]Ongoing[/td]
[td]70KH/sec (LTC mode)[/td]
[td]$98[/td]
[td][url=http://www.dualminer.com/]http://www.dualminer.com[/url][/td]
[td]1.5W[/td]
[td]Jan 2014[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]ltcgear.com[/td]
[td]Beekeeper[/td]
[td][url=https://forum.litecoin.net/index.php/topic,6401.0.html]https://forum.litecoin.net/index.php/topic,6401.0.html[/url][/td]
[td]Ongoing[/td]
[td]25-250-1500 KH/s[/td]
[td]$50-250-1497[/td]
[td][url=http://ltcgear.com]http://ltcgear.com[/url][/td]
[td]40-50W[/td]
[td]Ongoing[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]

Gridseed chip-based products and reseller/distributors

[table]
[tr]
[td]Project Name[/td]
[td]Forum User[/td]
[td]Thread[/td]
[td]Product[/td]
[td]Cost[/td]
[td]Website[/td]
[td]Shipping[/td]
[/tr]
[tr] [td]Bitcoinminerz[/td]
[td]n/a[/td]
[td][/td]
[td]0.3MH/sec[/td]
[td]$239[/td]
[td]bitcoinminerz.com[/td][/tr][/table]
[td]Ongoing?[/td]

[tr] [td]Bitcoinminingmachines[/td]
[td]n/a[/td]
[td]n/a[/td]
[td]0.3-3 MH/sec[/td]
[td]£165-1450[/td]
[td]bitcoinminingmachines.co.uk[/td][/tr]
[td]Ongoing[/td]

[tr] [td]Blackminer[/td]
[td]BlackElectronics[/td]
[td][url=topic=446503.0[/td][/tr]
[td]6 MH/sec[/td]
[td]£6695[/td]
[td][url=blackminer.com
[td]March 2014?[/td]

[tr] [td]Cybtc[/td]
[td]n/a[/td]
[td][url=topic=355268.0[/td][/tr]
[td]300KH/sec[/td]
[td]CNY 11198??[/td]
[td][url=cybtc.com[/td]
[td]Ongoing[/td]

[tr] [td]Diginforce[/td]
[td]n/a[/td]
[td][url=topic=355268.0[/td][/tr]
[td]300KH/sec[/td]
[td]$133(?)[/td]
[td][url=diginforce.com[/td]
[td]Ongoing?[/td]

[tr] [td]DualMiner[/td]
[td]dualminer[/td]
[td][url=topic=409756.0[/td][/tr]
[td]70KH/sec (LTC mode)[/td]
[td]$98[/td]
[td][url=dualminer.com[/td]
[td]Ongoing[/td]

[tr] [td]Hash-master[/td]
[td]n/a[/td]
[td]n/a[/td]
[td]0.3-6 MH/sec[/td]
[td]$330-3000[/td]
[td][url=hash-master.com[/td][/tr]
[td]Ongoing[/td]

[tr] [td]Hashra[/td]
[td]Hashra[/td]
[td][url=topic=416672.0[/td][/tr]
[td]3-6MH/sec[/td]
[td]£1453.05-2848.46[/td]
[td][url=hashra.com[/td]
[td]Ongoing?[/td]

[tr] [td]Helixminers[/td]
[td]helixminers[/td]
[td][url=topic=17510.0[/td][/tr]
[td]0.3MH/sec[/td]
[td]$215 ($185 coupon)[/td]
[td][url=helixminers.com[/td]
[td]Ongoing[/td]

[tr] [td]Lightningasic[/td]
[td]asiabtc[/td]
[td][url=topic=421921.0[/td][/tr]
[td]3-6 MH/sec[/td]
[td]$2600-5100[/td]
[td][url=lightningasic.com[/td]
[td]Ongoing[/td]

[tr] [td]Minersource[/td]
[td]n/a[/td]
[td]n/a[/td]
[td]0.3 MH/sec[/td]
[td]$199[/td]
[td][url=minersource.net[/td][/tr]
[td]Ongoing[/td]

[tr] [td]Zoomhash[/td]
[td]Zoomhash[/td]
[td][url=topic=474017.0[/td][/tr]
[td]0.3-3-6 MH/sec[/td]
[td]$234-4899[/td]
[td][url=zoomhash.com[/td]
[td]Ongoing[/td][/td]

Probably you are all aware, but some more info (and excitement) here!

• bitcoin forum: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=362964.0
• litecoin forum: https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=9545.0

Anyone planning to get some boards or/and chips?! I am in!