Quote from: kramble on October 02, 2013, 12:56:32 PM

Quote from: Littleshop on October 02, 2013, 12:39:25 PM

Quote from: kramble on October 02, 2013, 09:23:26 AM

I'd hang on to it. Someone will eventually port my Litecoin miner to it, the tricky bit will be dealing with the MCU (perhaps Luke-Jr could help out?).

Thank you for your work for the community but please don't give people false hope. With the scrypt speeds you are getting out of that we are talking so slow that you should still mine BTC with it. The point is we are talking about less then $5 a month after power (after the difficulty change this week).

I agree totally. Its still a factor of three more profitable to mine bitcoin than litecoin using the current Icarus/Lancelot bitstream, as discussed just yesterday on the litecoin forum.

And at just a few cents per day, its really just for novelty value rather than a serious economic proposal. I just didn't like the thought of all those fpga boards going for scrap once bitcoin mining became uneconomic (and the project gave me a chance to brush up on my verilog coding skills Wink

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Let me say, I do not think they are scrap. They do have a value, it is just pretty low. They can be used as an FPGA dev platform. That is why I say I would buy a few for $30 each. But I will never get that $30 back mining BTC.