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Open-Source-FPGA-Bitcoin-Miner
by
relisher
on 20/04/2013, 23:04:32 UTC
Hello all fellow bitcoin miners,
I have a de2-115 that I used for a high school project that I would like to convert to a bitcoin miner. I used the Open-Source-FPGA-Bitcoin-Miner code which was optimized for this exact FGPA (luck I guess) and I have run into a few problems.

1) Whenever I run mine.bat, it comes up with the error -
> ERROR: Unable to getwork. Reaon: key "result" not known in dictionary
This could be because of the old version of Quartus I am using (10.0) - If anybody could confirm or deny if that is the issue, I would be greatful!
2) The core seems to get very hot even with the acrylic casing off. Has anybody implemented a cooling system for this FPGA
3) I have heard that there is a way to get this program to run at 100+ MHash/s. Though I wouldn't dream of implementing this until I figure out a cooling mechanism for the FPGA, does anybody know where the sof file for that is?

Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you very much!
- relisher