Quote from: d57heinz on March 12, 2018, 05:24:55 AM

Quote from: JaredKaragen on March 12, 2018, 03:27:22 AM

i would love to try one of these cards at least at some point. If a group buy goes through, and I have the ability to put it, it would be nice to be able to =)

looking at this baikal cryptonight asic coming out; it makes sense...

It just starts with a keccack hash, and then a rather basic algorythm is done with ~2Mb of memory space. I was thinking of working with my father to find an FPGA that would fit the bill for all of these operations. The way its calculated, I can see how it would be such low power with an FPGA.

With all the ASICS coming on scene how can one logically even think of buying a gpu? This constant forking wont happen forever. ESP on a chain with any value(if one expects it to keep value). Surely everyone in this thread realizes gpu mining is being rekt by the Chinese asic manufacturers. Right?

BR

It will be interesting to see how easy this Baikal N miner can be firmware upgraded since its FPGA, when Monero March 2018 Hard Fork happens.

Monero Team has already stated that they will not hesitate to fork if ASIC players manufactures XMR/Cryptonote miners.