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Thanks for the suggestion. The website is long overdue for a frontend overhaul, but I'm not really that good at frontend design. I also am rather busy with my other projects at the moment, so I don't have the time to improve this one. At the moment it's functioning quite well by itself.
If you allow me I could design a rough template for a new site and share it with you. As already mentioned, this project has great potential and all it really needs to grow is more available work, which can be solved by using different language and terminology on the landing page. I can do that for you.
Jorijnsmit, I think it needs more than that; if you're aiming for average bitcoin-joe-on-the-street to be able to use vanity addresses, even copying and pasting the private key into a website/app key-import text box might be more trouble than they'd be comfortable with. Certainly if they generated the key on a website then had to import it into a phone app (or any other device), or the other way round. The ideal would be a point-and-click interface to "download" the key and apply it. There's no mime-type or file format or filename-type-extension set up for that, and no apps I'm aware of have considered to make it easy enough to do anything like that. Because of the low demand for usage of that kind of feature, I think - bit of a chicken and egg type problem.
I get a redirect-loop warning (in google chrome) on the charts page as of early this morning (just now, 27th) when clicking either "Charts" link or the small chart on the main page, when GBP selected and shown as the currency. Not used the site for several days but I normally use the charts.
Bump! @fpgaminer, did you do much further work on the fgpa vanity miner? (even over Christmas holiday season maybe?)
I'm really interested in parallellising it more as you said could be done, but I have no electronics experience since a little at university over 15yrs ago (did some vhdl/verilog/microprocessor stuff in my Computer-science degree but only basic stuff, I was more of a software programmer so picked a course that was more focussed on that). Maybe I wish I'd remembered more/cared more now...
I am however a good (even if I say so myself) C/C++/Python developer who works on performance-critical apps in the regular (non-btc, corporate) finance world. OpenCL is more C-like and easier for me to get into I'm guessing (from what I've seen of examples) and seems to be picking up a lot of interest but I'm not sure if I can run the ocl miner intended mostly for GPU's on an fpga, say an Altera or Ztex one - not found any opencl compiler kits after a bit of a cursory look so guessing no chance for now.
I'm also curious how that 40Kh/s vanity-mining compares to the regular bitcoin mining rate you get on the same hardware - what's the hash-rate ratio? Am trying to work out estimates.
Is there anything I can do to help? Even if its just donations to motivate you
, but if there's code or (with lots of reading & learning on my part) some fpga logic designing or optimising I might be able to learn enough about to assist with, I'll give it a good go (to learn enough to help).
Is anyone running the fpga vanity miner at the moment or are you all doing other types of mining with them/using GPUs only? (and if not using fpgaminer-vanitygen, is it just cos its more profitable?/other reason?)
I'm really interested in parallellising it more as you said could be done, but I have no electronics experience since a little at university over 15yrs ago (did some vhdl/verilog/microprocessor stuff in my Computer-science degree but only basic stuff, I was more of a software programmer so picked a course that was more focussed on that). Maybe I wish I'd remembered more/cared more now...
I am however a good (even if I say so myself) C/C++/Python developer who works on performance-critical apps in the regular (non-btc, corporate) finance world. OpenCL is more C-like and easier for me to get into I'm guessing (from what I've seen of examples) and seems to be picking up a lot of interest but I'm not sure if I can run the ocl miner intended mostly for GPU's on an fpga, say an Altera or Ztex one - not found any opencl compiler kits after a bit of a cursory look so guessing no chance for now.
I'm also curious how that 40Kh/s vanity-mining compares to the regular bitcoin mining rate you get on the same hardware - what's the hash-rate ratio? Am trying to work out estimates.
Is there anything I can do to help? Even if its just donations to motivate you
, but if there's code or (with lots of reading & learning on my part) some fpga logic designing or optimising I might be able to learn enough about to assist with, I'll give it a good go (to learn enough to help).Is anyone running the fpga vanity miner at the moment or are you all doing other types of mining with them/using GPUs only? (and if not using fpgaminer-vanitygen, is it just cos its more profitable?/other reason?)