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Re: Acorn M.2 FPGA based GPU Accelerator
by
mfurman
on 13/03/2019, 14:45:51 UTC
Those interested in the realistic future of GPU mining support by Acorn should probably read some comments by one of the developers (unrelated to SQRL), on Discord, starting 10:03 on Feb 13
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Re: Acorn M.2 FPGA based GPU Accelerator
by
mfurman
on 09/03/2019, 01:08:16 UTC
I don't bother posting on the discord anymore.

I have to thank mfurman for breaking balls months ago as it saved me around 800 usd.
Smiley
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Re: Acorn M.2 FPGA based GPU Accelerator
by
mfurman
on 08/03/2019, 23:07:55 UTC
They muted me for three days for asking if people remember "Cold Fusion" that became so "promising" in 1989  Grin  I trully think that those snippets of infor from GPUHoarder are just becoming funny and those two support people are like mushrooms

Wrong, you were muted for being off topic again, after being asked to stop posting in the wrong channel. Let's not try to play the victim here.

Cold Fusion was very much on topic, if you remember what it was all about. I also asked about boondoggle  Cheesy
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Re: Acorn M.2 FPGA based GPU Accelerator
by
mfurman
on 08/03/2019, 21:22:40 UTC
They muted me for three days for asking if people remember "Cold Fusion" that became so "promising" in 1989  Grin  I trully think that those snippets of infor from GPUHoarder are just becoming funny and those two support people are like mushrooms

They muted me there as well  Mods there are easily triggered now.  

Their efforts to put something out to back their website claims is looking more and more like a joke with each new passing week.

I have been showing my co-worker who's into cryptocurrency mining the ridiculous of SQRL research, he wisely gone the used Z9 mini route and I stupidly went with these overpriced crash easy 215+ acorns.  I had no idea going FPGA over ASIC would turn into such a tremendous flop.
Oh so you're Esme squalor, maybe you shouldn't go around trolling with fake dates.

You are aware that a z9 mini at 13cents /kw profits at 17 cents a day right? They launched at $2,000 when new.

They run at around $500 with PSU, that's obviously used to hell and back.

You can easily get two 215+ that bring it 3 cents a day profit each for that cost. That's 6 cents vs the 17 cents profit. Now here the thing though, those 215+ will have different bitstreams come out and buy July won't literally be sold for parts, the z9 not so much.

Believe it or not you're in a better position than you're buddy.


Please do not forget that first batch Z9 mini was released in June and therefore has already ROI'ed. The Z9 minis from the second batch were ~$600 for me. My elctricity cost is ~7c/kWh and Z9  ASICs are still earning more for me than any GPUs (Grin mining on RTX2070 was for a short time more profitable)
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Re: Acorn M.2 FPGA based GPU Accelerator
by
mfurman
on 08/03/2019, 19:49:37 UTC
They muted me for three days for asking if people remember "Cold Fusion" that became so "promising" in 1989  Grin  I trully think that those snippets of infor from GPUHoarder are just becoming funny and those two support people are like mushrooms

They muted me there as well  Mods there are easily triggered now.  

Their efforts to put something out to back their website claims is looking more and more like a joke with each new passing week.

I have been showing my co-worker who's into cryptocurrency mining the ridiculous of SQRL research, he wisely gone the used Z9 mini route and I stupidly went with these overpriced crash easy 215+ acorns.  I had no idea going FPGA over ASIC would turn into such a tremendous flop.

I am still mining with my Z9 mini ASICs  Smiley
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Re: Acorn M.2 FPGA based GPU Accelerator
by
mfurman
on 08/03/2019, 19:10:53 UTC
They muted me for three days for asking if people remember "Cold Fusion" that became so "promising" in 1989  Grin  I trully think that those snippets of info from GPUHoarder are just becoming funny and those two support people are like mushrooms
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Re: Acorn M.2 FPGA based GPU Accelerator
by
mfurman
on 18/01/2019, 03:12:40 UTC
Did you guys see BuriedONE Crypto Mining video from January 17 and checked all the screen shots of Discord conversations? The reality is worse than all the speculations. Of course it was all on Discord but here we got a nice summary
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Re: Acorn M.2 FPGA based GPU Accelerator
by
mfurman
on 16/01/2019, 18:47:51 UTC
Any updates?

Miner probably in one month. Interesting discussion on Discord this morning (follow up on last night's discussions)
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Re: Acorn M.2 FPGA based GPU Accelerator
by
mfurman
on 02/01/2019, 21:09:39 UTC
I do not understand why they would be selling Acorn on Amazon without real software to run it. I know that many will disagree with me but SQRL made themselves irrelevant by the miner delay (they were constantly saying that SQRL miner will come with Acorn release.
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Re: Acorn M.2 FPGA based GPU Accelerator
by
mfurman
on 31/12/2018, 21:08:19 UTC
Complete overpromise and underdeliver!!!!

I'm just waiting for the next excuse to come up and it being delayed another month(s)

Could be much worst, You could have ordered a dcr1 obelisk and got rekt.  No delivery, no product, 1 year delays, negative profitability. USA companies struggle to compete with china companies for delivering mining products.

I have to say that what fascinates me the most are those people who are constantly discussing (on Discord) some mods involving Acorn and all the subtleties of mining ZEN Protocol, without any concern about gains, money and time wasted. This is unreal to me.
People who believe the software will come are currently spending their time tweaking and enjoying the hardware they have on hand. Not sure what you don't get.

I do not get how much they think their time is worth. In Ontario, Canada minimum wage is C$15/h :-)
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Re: Acorn M.2 FPGA based GPU Accelerator
by
mfurman
on 31/12/2018, 15:53:02 UTC
Complete overpromise and underdeliver!!!!

I'm just waiting for the next excuse to come up and it being delayed another month(s)

Could be much worst, You could have ordered a dcr1 obelisk and got rekt.  No delivery, no product, 1 year delays, negative profitability. USA companies struggle to compete with china companies for delivering mining products.

I have to say that what fascinates me the most are those people who are constantly discussing (on Discord) some mods involving Acorn and all the subtleties of mining ZEN Protocol, without any concern about gains, money and time wasted. This is unreal to me.
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Re: Acorn M.2 FPGA based GPU Accelerator
by
mfurman
on 16/12/2018, 17:27:24 UTC
No rumors of a lawsuit for lack of a miner to be provided. ( I meant mining software )

They had all those acceleration numbers posted in June or July.

They never demo'd an acorn  and no proof that an acorn could do those claims.

I feel lawsuits are coming.

To be fair if the gear can do as claimed maybe ohGodaGirl  fucked him hard and is refusing to give him the software to make it so.

I think she wanted more money for that software he said no and figured they could write it.  So far a real beating to those that purchased the gear.


My thanks to mfurman and his constant attacks on discord I know he is why I bailed out and saved myself 800 usd.

I wonder how many others bailed due to his constant questioning.

Hats off to mfurman!

Hey if ohGodaGirl is holding up the software someone can email me so I will know it is true.

WOW. I did not expect it :-) Thank you. I thought that the miner was a critical proof that the checks had been done. I wanted to try it with GPUs only to test the quality of boost
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Re: Acorn M.2 FPGA based GPU Accelerator
by
mfurman
on 11/12/2018, 17:41:44 UTC
I completely agree  with what philipma1957 said. I also took a refund. I can only say that I was almost crucified on GPUHoarder Discord (by all the people posting) when I kept asking to see SQRL Miner and test it before Acorn was released.

You were "almost crucified" not because you asked, but because you never stopped asking at least daily, along with a dozen (or more) others, sometimes only a few messages above yours. Then you kept asking after you requested and received a refund.  After a while it gets old.

Perhaps if others insisted to see SQRL miner and it had been released, we would have known earlier about the problems. It is still not out. I am surprised that you think that it is normal.

On another note (although related), have you seen this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNy5Ta5ccNg&t=1s
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Re: Acorn M.2 FPGA based GPU Accelerator
by
mfurman
on 11/12/2018, 03:12:06 UTC
LOL
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Re: Acorn M.2 FPGA based GPU Accelerator
by
mfurman
on 11/12/2018, 02:59:42 UTC
I completely agree  with what philipma1957 said. I also took a refund. I can only say that I was almost crucified on GPUHoarder Discord (by all the people posting) when I kept asking to see SQRL Miner and test it before Acorn was released.
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Re: Acorn M.2 FPGA based GPU Accelerator
by
mfurman
on 09/12/2018, 01:48:33 UTC
I am just amazed that people in sqrl-acorn Discord are wasting their time constantly troubleshooting their Acorn configurations without (almost) any gains, as far as crypto mining is concerned. I know that GPU mining is mostly unprofitable now but why add to it with the loss of time?

mainly im learning the hardwares limits. fpga is unlike other computer hardware in a lot of ways.

basically messing around now with things like fan direction and flow, adding thermal pads and sinks, finding voltage and temp limits etc. lota mix and match with my gear, 2 systems to test in with various combinations of gpus, nests, and acorns.

naturally, the real gpu assist stuff would sure be nice but in the meantime im not going to just watch them in a box, im going to play with them. once the real miner drops i will be in good shape as far as my understandings of the hardware and its limits.



Have you seen that GPUHoarder is already mentioning (or testing ground) that there might not really be any viable GPU boost and the effort is going to be focused on Acorn solo mining (for some obscure coins)?
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GPUHoarderToday at 8:45 PM
@Bazzaar if I had every confidence that we had community support and I wasn’t going to be immediately pressed to take returns by buyers who aren’t making the ROI they need, I would absolutely love for the next GPU Assist algos, further optimization, and tuning to be my focus. I love this stuff."

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Re: Acorn M.2 FPGA based GPU Accelerator
by
mfurman
on 09/12/2018, 00:23:51 UTC
Thanks so much for selling a useless FPGA without the needed program, you FUCKING USELESS DOUCHES!
 
Calm your shit, it's barely out. Did you even buy one or are you angry because?

You don't rush software unless you want broken buggy stuff.

You don't rush selling hardware to the public without the applicable software; especially when there were delays that should have given additional time to develop software lol...
Why not? So people could complain that they were mining on them themselves and holding them before releasing the product. Because that's exactly what would be said if they decide to not send out finished hardware over software, people wouldn't believe them.
Acorn was to be released in August. Whenever there were questions about SQRL Miner (to test it even without Acorn) the answer was that it would be released with Acorns. It is already December 5. Hardware without software is useless. By the way, the numbers illustrating the advantage of using Acorn, were released in June, I believe.

unfortunately this is true.  It's been weeks since they shipped out the Acorns and we still don't have anything useful out of it.
On top, they just took more they could have, on their plate

Most of the buyers of Acorn (at least that's what I think) wanted to save power+boost their existing GPU hashrate and not standalone mine with it.  

Absolutely. I have been watching this SQRL saga even just to learn how not to run a project or a company. Even very talented engineers are often very poor organizers. I am just amazed that people in sqrl-acorn Discord are wasting their time constantly troubleshooting their Acorn configurations without (almost) any gains, as far as crypto mining is concerned. I know that GPU mining is mostly unprofitable now but why add to it with the loss of time?
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Re: Acorn M.2 FPGA based GPU Accelerator
by
mfurman
on 05/12/2018, 17:16:46 UTC
These numbers have not changed since June
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Re: Acorn M.2 FPGA based GPU Accelerator
by
mfurman
on 05/12/2018, 16:45:48 UTC
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Acorn was to be released in August. Whenever there were questions about SQRL Miner (to test it even without Acorn) the answer was that it would be released with Acorns. It is already December 5. Hardware without software is useless. By the way, the numbers illustrating the advantage of using Acorn, were released in June, I believe.

So if they made them up  and believed they could write software to achieve those numbers it has now created an interesting problem for them.

Have to say gear looks nice.


Seems to be they should be able to show us  those  estimates  were real right now  and they don't.

Frankly that =  "bad news"


Here is what GPUHoarder said yesterday:

"GPUHoarderToday at 6:57 PM
So here’s how Acorns went - we built the first Hand Built prototype boards, of which 3 actually functioned (1 was later broken before it got much life) early in the summer. A combination of the two remaining prototypes and AC701 boards were used to prove out functionality - including ethash, CN, Lyra2re2 and X16r algo support bitstream.

GPUHoarderToday at 6:59 PM
We proved out and metered exactly how much state bandwidth we can get on/off acorn in full duplex, and the performance and power of all the bitstreams, as well as area on chip.
That was used to generate test harnesses for miners,
For x16r, we can’t actually test every algo combination - so we timed exact performance on all the GPU algorithm pairs vs acorn - math is applied to get what the average will be, and specific blocks of course tested


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It was in a sense a response to questions about how they got the numbers (simulation only?) in June but they cannot come up with working SQRL Miner now.
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Re: Acorn M.2 FPGA based GPU Accelerator
by
mfurman
on 05/12/2018, 12:25:05 UTC


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 I’m anticipating

GPUHoarderToday at 7:08 PM
So I.e. the bitstream we used for testing that can only be flashed over jtag, and can’t be updated in field isn’t 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
That’s the scenario we are in now - power is such a large component of GPU coin and such a small component of FPGA coin

.................


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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