Looks promising, thanks for your effort.
It's a bit scary to be the first person to test it! Too bad your GitHub account has no public history, but at least it's been around since 2016.
Personally, I can't get a decent hashrate on ghostrider compared to randomx, so I'm not going to be the first tester.

Just don't invest anything, mine, and dump before the devs do.

I'm only a fucking noob cuz the price went up after I dumped. Should have HODL a bit

If you don't spend too much money and you get some coins valued at $1000 USD it's certainly not a waste.
You're effectively solo mining, so it's just a free lottery for anyone with some spare time and drives.

LHR cards will require a new driver
The developer just stated this trick won't work on new drivers
Don't hold your breath

any idea why it's crashing on MTP for the last few versions? I have to use cryptodredge now for it.

I can't figure out why sometimes (usually?) the tweaking profile doesn't apply when set from the command line. Nothing in the log I can see. It just says tweaking enabled like usual.
I can always hit +/- to manually set the tweak in this case. I'm launching from awesome miner service (run as administrator). Can you put some extra logging to figure this out?

It's possible to use with NVidia adapter installed but I'm not sure what the trick is. I had it working and then did a system restore and reinstalled drivers, now it's broken.

disabled because of anti-hacking error. don't care if fixed or not. already lost money thanks to your mistake.

Sort of. For now. I mean it's not even out yet, but the API to interact with the acorn will be made public so that dev's can make their faster-but-not-free mining software for us at their discretion. Or you can use it to find prime numbers or something, if you want. Javascript accelerator? Gotta be some interesting uses for these outside of mining.

Just so you know, that was answered in the first post lol

It will work with all. The bandwidth requirement is a lot less when you spread to many cards like that, so you might even get good results with 1x risers. You'd want the cards running using PCI-e v3 for best results, though.
A single 215+ is basically going to give you 30MH - 60MH depending on algo regardless of the number of cards.

lol okay, let's not derail this thread with any more comments and strange accusations about "this guy". I mean, I don't think any youtube reviewer deserves an unsolicited review sample. When they say "do your own research" 3 times in every video, they should take their own advice and pre-order the thing themselves if it looks interesting. I especially hate how they all call themselves noobs to relate to the audience, yet somehow they have offices and/or basements full of so much mining hardware it makes the pros jealous. If you want an acorn, order it on Friday, or you might be waiting a long time. Don't wait for the professional noob reviews.

LOL I actually subscribe to Vosk on YT and lurk in his discord. I'm qualified to have an opinion. Nobody should have ASICs, but it's a bit late for that. ASICs just end up in the trash after a year -- it's a huge waste and the model is not sustainable. We are making FPGAs to kill ASICs in the future, okay? Gamers will be happy because they won't compete with miners for cards, bitmain will take a bit less profit, and less stuff ends up in the trash.
Vosk obviously didn't need TWO Z9's to review them, and his uninformed opinion that mineority should be working on ProgPOW is laughable. ProgPOW is done -- it is being evaluated by coin teams for implementation. There is very little interest, unfortunately.
Mineority doesn't stand to profit much by selling and hosting FPGAs -- especially when they throw in a warranty and optimizations -- it's just something to give their business some creditability and help the community. ASIC reviews are almost completely useless -- you either buy batch 1 with no reviews and are almost guaranteed a nice profit, or you gamble on batch 2 or 3 reaching ROI. Vosk doesn't need to buy 15k of ASICs so he can tell us this. Nobody does. He's helping himself, not us. I like some of his other content to support proof of capacity mining, but most of his videos are just fluff with no useful info. For me. I guess if you want to know that you should remodel your garage with an epoxy floor it's helpful? lol

In Vosk's last video he mentions mineority disappointing him by selling FPGAs instead of working on ProgPOW. Then he's complaining about reduced Nvidia profit due to the Z9 mini and bitmain being evil, and how 'people' only care about profit, yet he's bought two Z9's and another ASIC on the way? If he's not going to set a decent example, he's just a hypocrite. I don't hate the guy, I just think he could do a lot better if his reviews were more focused on the technology and less about how much money he can make. Let him and his subscribers buy their ASICs and leave the FPGAs for people that can tell the difference between a scam and a deal at this early stage. If you have a review sample please send it to Seth or someone else that actually made some FPGA videos recently.

when you get around to adding jce miner, just keep in mind that many people might want to use
-c config.txt
which doesn't work if you also pass it --auto
so maybe check the command line for -c and don't send --auto in that case
thanks for all your hard work so far!

Please, no. Guy is annoying af. Just my opinion!

Okay so if the max amount of 4x-16x slots on your board is 3, and you have one m.2 slot, ideally you should have 2 video cards and 2 acorns working together, and use the rest of the slots with the 1x risers for normal mining (if you want). Let me explain how I'd do it.
One acorn in the m.2 slot, obviously.
If you had been using that slot, here's what you could buy to move the SSD to an SATA port without cloning it (this might help someone else): https://www.aliexpress.com/item/NI5L-High-quality-PCB-B-Key-M-2-NGFF-SSD-to-2-5-SATA-Converter-Adapter/32797563020.html
2 video cards and one more acorn in an adapter can go in any of the slots that provide 8x/4x
Here's an adapter that will do the minimum required: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/JEYI-SK4-M-2-NVMe-SSD-NGFF-TO-PCIE-X4-adapter-M-Key-interface-card-Suppor/32785472313.html
And then to get at any of the 1x slots you've blocked with the video cards, I'd use these: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Newest-Sale-PCI-E-X1-Extension-Cable-Riser-Card-Extender-USB-3-0-Transfer-Cables-PCI/32861850204.html
There are other SKUs of that same adapter at that same bitCON store (lol) but this is the only one with free shipping (that only works if you order 1 at a time). If you're okay paying a lot more for faster shipping you can save a few cents switching to a different sku or using the mobile app to pay. I also saw them on amazon.com under the ubit name. I don't know why these aren't more popular; they're really hard to find. I wouldn't use the $2-3 cables to extend those slots as those are really trashy looking, and will definitely break eventually. I wouldn't risk connecting the usb direct to the 16x slot from your other riser, use the included one without power and then the complete 1x to 16x riser chained to that. A bit messy, but safe.
Everything I've written assumes you can run your board in pci-e v2 mode. If it's not stable and you need to use v1 you have to use one less acorn because your 4x slot is now useless to it. You also might want to double check that using slots on your board doesn't fuck with the bandwidth to the m.2 slot. I checked https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/Z170A-GAMING-PRO-CARBON/Specification and it looks fine -- it only disables SATA ports 5/6 when you use it, which is easy to work around.

It's up to the bitstream developers, but GPUHoarder really hates fees. Whatever his team produces might actually be free.

They'll publish interfaces for other devs to use, so those ones might have around 4%, which is what the first bitstreams for the BCU FPGA are targeting.

You guys can save some money and make a free wire transfer to Squirrels at transfer.xe.com
It saved me about $100 on one BCU, for example. It will be nice when the acorns are available as bank wires are quite annoying for smaller transactions. If you decide to add a riser card or your friend asks you for an acorn a day late it's really not going to be nice paying those fees again. Plus you don't even have to drive to the bank if you do it this way.

Simply sign up, and then create a new transaction, filling in your grand total from the invoice where it says "you want:", after making sure USD is selected. It will calculate the amount in your local currency so you can compare to your bank at this stage.
Continue to the next screen, and select destination country "United States". Take the information from your invoice and fill it in here. For example, but please refer to your own invoice:
Recipient's name: Squirrels, LLC
Recipient's address: 121 Wilbur Dr NE North Canton, OH 44720 USA
Bank account number: 233220xxx (please copy from the invoice!)
ABA Routing Number: 044000037
(other bank details should fill in and match the invoice)
Reference: (Your invoice #)
Reason for payment: "Goods/Services"
Continue through the process to commit to this transaction at your quoted rate.

Then, at your bank website:
Create a bill payment to xe's partner company for your country using the 'pay to' as the name of the bill or payee, and your unique 'client number' for the account number. You don't need to put the reference to quote anywhere. This information will be in a pdf they have on the site and also e-mail to you.

Optional
Call xe and let them know the purpose of the transfer to ensure no hold is placed on the xfer due to any suspicions of money laundering

If your bank doesn't have the required payee to send the money as a 'bill payment', you can upload a voided cheque to xe and they will link directly to your account to debit it, but this will take about a day for them to set up.

My transfer went from my bank to xe (HIFX Canada) in 14 hours. The wire was sent 6 hours later, and payment was confirmed by Squirrels about 40 hours later, which is pretty good for having bank holidays in both countries this week.

You should assume that 1x risers are not supported. It's already been made quite clear the acorn is not going to be useful in that situation unless you run it by itself, not talking to the GPUs.
PCI-e v1 should work fine if your board provides 8 lanes to the integrated m.2, or you can use an 8x to m.2 or 16x to a dual m.2 adapter, plus your slave card(s) are in 8x slots. The math is really obvious and simple -- if you want to use half-speed pci-e from what is suggested, then double the lanes. If you use pci-e v3 it doesn't speed up the acorn so that will still need x4, but the video cards could get away with 2 lanes. There's no reason you should ever need a 16x riser to the video card!
I'll try to figure out which algos are which state 256/512 but it's more complicated than that - you should expect a 1060 to get a bigger boost than a 1080 Ti, for example.

lyra2rev2 - 256 bit
lyra2z - 256 bit
neoscrypt - 256 bit
equihash based (zhash etc) - 256 bit
cryptonight based (v7, heavy, light) - 256 bit
phi1612 - 512 bit
x16r/s - 512 bit
phi2 - 512 bit
x17 - 512 bit
tribus - 512 bit
skunk - 512 bit

You guys shouldn't be so harsh about Seth's interviews -- there's nothing wrong with his style. He's done lots of helpful interviews lately shedding light on the FPGA projects and mineority, plus got a few coin teams to talk about their projects goals, use cases, how they feel about decentralization, proof of useful work, and other interesting stuff. As for the FPGA interviews being light on technical details, that's to be expected at this early stage when bitstreams are being developed and hardware is still being finalized. I'm not sure why you are even asking for a video showing the hardware running when it's been stated so many times that performance metrics are not being made available yet, and the reasons have been given why.