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Discussion about Building an FPGA miner for CryptoNightV7 - Monero
by
ItsNotImportant
on 01/04/2018, 22:51:17 UTC
I am trying to build a CryptoNightV7 FPGA Miner.  Knowing that it is not cost effective, what type of hashrate could be achieved with a Kintex-7, Virtex-7 or even the UltraScale and UltraScale+.

I am looking at it for research purposes and do not have the desire nor the finances to scale it.  It is simply a desire to do it.

Here is a perfect example of a project that I have enjoyed and wish to do the same with CryptoNight. 

https://github.com/pedrorivera/SiaFpgaMiner

I think messing around with his miner is a lot of fun.  I am NOT trying to compete with GPU’s but love messing around with new hardware and software.  As you can see from his hashrate, it is not a viable alternative to GPU mining (and particularly now that there are ASICs).


I am offering a bounty for an FPGA Cryptonight miner, the link I will post in my signature.

Look forward to input from some of the bitcointalk programmers.

Thanks