Re: CoinTerra announces its first ASIC - Hash-Rate greater than 500 GH/s

US companies seems to suck...bitmine is about to ship there goes all our profit making Sad

When I first started mining back in late 2009 with my Xilinx LX240's, I would have been lucky to trade 10K Bitcoins for a slice of pizza

I'm 100% sure you were not mining with Xilinx in late 2009

Sorry mate, anyone from my graduating class can implement SHA-2 algorithms on an FPGA; it is not exactly what I would call challenging. My background is in Electrical/Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, but my top hobbies include research in Number Theory and Cryptography. Grin

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registered 21 September 2013 and claim to mine Bitcoin with FPGA late 2009, what members in this forum has became..... it just amaze me

Congratulations Sherlock Holmes, you've got it all figured out. Now, only if you can figure out Satoshi Nakamoto's true identity, then I will be impressed.

In 2009 there was no need to bother programming an FPGA. You could solo mine with a Nettop CPU.

I have been implementing crypto and other number theoretic algorithms as a hobby on Xilinx FPGA's since 2001. I already had SHA-2 and ECDSA (binary field) implementations on an FPGA long before Bitcoins ever existed.

This is off-topic, but you're saying you implemented FPGA's before anyone else had even implemented GPU's? What miner did you use then as the only mining client was the bitcoin-qt wallet its self Roll Eyes

So you implemented FPGA's before anyone else had even implemented GPU's and you even had your own private mining software implemented too. As even the first stand alone CPU miner hadn't been released in 2009. Come on give it up and learn you can't earn Kudos on this forum by making stuff up. If you did implement FPGA's in 2009 you'd be richer than Satoshi himself as you would have mined most of the blocks. While everyone else was CPU solo mining on the bitcoin-qt wallet. Also BTW, all the big fish from before 2011 rarely ever visit this forum anymore. As their too busy concealing their wealth. Money talks, but wealth whispers.