We are a group of developers from different countries. After working over the last six months we are ready to present the result - an ecological "green" miner.
Usually, ASICs are designed for industrial mining and they are expensive. In addition, these devices threaten decentralization. Changing the mining algorithm involves the risk to not recoup investment.
GPU mining is more flexible but produces a lot of heat and noise. This accelerates global warming and increases the owner's costs. This forms a feud with gamers!
We have developed an intermediate product. This small device is able to replace one rig and produce 7 kh / 10 W on the v7 and 3.5 kh / 8W on the heavy. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1h_6uMPuAfIud_22hsuTlX7IHwLfanmIW
Dwarf supports decentralization because personal mining will now become profitable in the countries with high electricity prices. The device is of low cost and does not threaten large losses if the sudden change in the algorithm happens. This is available to anyone who does not want to pay thousands dollars for ASIC.
Dwarf can be updated. If the next fork will be similar to the previous one changing the firmware will allow the device to function further. This can be done remotely using a unique device encrypted key. We plan to sell updates for a small price.
Now we are negotiating with the factory to produce 5000 units. We expect about 300 euro for each and can tell exact price within 10 days. The sale will be launched soon.
If you have questions about a major purchase, please write to the official mailbox (this is a unique project mailbox!) DwarfMinerSales@gmail.com .
Why do we sell this? Because this board is not designed for industrial mining. It's not convenient way to use a thousand devices for one person. It is designed as an anti-ASIC for personal use in the living area.
Usually, ASICs are designed for industrial mining and they are expensive. In addition, these devices threaten decentralization. Changing the mining algorithm involves the risk to not recoup investment.
GPU mining is more flexible but produces a lot of heat and noise. This accelerates global warming and increases the owner's costs. This forms a feud with gamers!
We have developed an intermediate product. This small device is able to replace one rig and produce 7 kh / 10 W on the v7 and 3.5 kh / 8W on the heavy. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1h_6uMPuAfIud_22hsuTlX7IHwLfanmIW
Dwarf supports decentralization because personal mining will now become profitable in the countries with high electricity prices. The device is of low cost and does not threaten large losses if the sudden change in the algorithm happens. This is available to anyone who does not want to pay thousands dollars for ASIC.
Dwarf can be updated. If the next fork will be similar to the previous one changing the firmware will allow the device to function further. This can be done remotely using a unique device encrypted key. We plan to sell updates for a small price.
Now we are negotiating with the factory to produce 5000 units. We expect about 300 euro for each and can tell exact price within 10 days. The sale will be launched soon.
If you have questions about a major purchase, please write to the official mailbox (this is a unique project mailbox!) DwarfMinerSales@gmail.com .
Why do we sell this? Because this board is not designed for industrial mining. It's not convenient way to use a thousand devices for one person. It is designed as an anti-ASIC for personal use in the living area.
What chip are you using?
I second this. What chip, or even brand are you using?
To sell for this price in Xilinx brand, youd be Artix with some external QDR maybe? Still the hashrate is... tricky at that power consumption. Id buy a bunch of them if I knew what FPGA so I could program them myself...
I too have a 7W board in development/ initial prototypes along with the big one. I dont think I could come anywhere close to even the AES for 7KH on that one. @200Mhz artix chips would be capable of thats around 5-10 M/AES full passes a second, 10 pipelines maybe on chip by the time other logic needed.. That only supports even scratch pad fill/inner/compress of 1 kh. So I would say again what chip?