Quote from: Tigel on December 05, 2018, 04:50:42 AM

Quote from: mfurman on December 05, 2018, 12:40:10 AM

Perhaps you should look at what GPUHoarder was saying on sqrl-acorn Discord starting at 6:52 pm on Dec 4 (today)

What did he say?

Among other things, he said:

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GPUHoarderToday at 6:52 PM
The thing with GPUs was that for GPUs the ratio of power to revenue -> profit is much higher, so as revenue squeezed profit squeezed to nothing much faster than standalone(edited)
GPU Assist squeezed less, but still much more than standalone
GPU Assist is awesome, and a support nightmare is what Im anticipating

GPUHoarderToday at 7:08 PM
So I.e. the bitstream we used for testing that can only be flashed over jtag, and cant be updated in field isnt very helpful. we also initially early on used three different open source miners with hacked in acorn support for testing and then refining our kernels, also not releasable easily.

GPUHoarderToday at 7:09 PM
Coin X makes $1.00 a day, and costs $0.50 in power on a GPU. Coin Y makes $0.30 a day on Acorn stand-alone
Acorn makes coin X power drop down to $0.20/day - profit goes from $0.50 to 0.80.(edited)
Stand alone same profit as GPU assist
Now half revenue(edited)
Coin X is now break even on GPU
With assist, makes $0.30 a day,
Coin Y still makes $0.15 day
Half it again

Now now coin X makes $0.05/day with assist, and Coin Y makes $0.075

GPUHoarderToday at 7:14 PM
Thats the scenario we are in now - power is such a large component of GPU coin and such a small component of FPGA coin

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GPUHoarderToday at 7:41 PM
As soon as it is profitable it gets driven to edge because so many GPU operations are desperate for profit
GPUHoarderToday at 7:41 PM
And there are now a large number of FPGA ops just scanning the horizon constantly for new opportunities

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