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Board Mining speculation
Re: Overt AsicBoost Released today?
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picominer
on 10/04/2018, 05:02:13 UTC
Could Innosilicon have created Halong to avoid sharing its patents with BDPL?

There are strong indications that they are related in some ways. The following post summarizes the key points:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2443327.msg33551682#msg33551682

How can a startup like Halong afford to create prototype device? A mask is a multi-million dollar investment. Is it possible they acquired their chips from another manufacturer or that Halong is actually Innosilicon? My bet is on the latter.

If Innosilicon is supplying chips to Halong, shouldn’t Innosilicon also be obliged to join BDPL if they manufacture chips with the AsicBoost design?
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Innosilicon A5 DashMaster 30.2G 750W
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picominer
on 24/11/2017, 03:21:48 UTC
My average temperature per hash board are 55/60/55 with the max being 68/74/68. Is that too high?
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Re: Innosilicon A5 DashMaster 30.2G 750W
by
picominer
on 23/07/2017, 03:13:16 UTC
It also depends on how many miners there are and how much of the overall hashrate is comprised of high power ASICs.  If only 10% of the total hashrate (currently 15TH I think) comes from these ASICs, the differential in difficulty will not be a direct correlation to their individual hashing power, but as a percentage increase of total power on the network.  1.5TH would be about 500 A5 Dashmasters, if the batch is that size, so that's 10% of the network.  Add another 750gh from an approximately comparable size Antminer D3 batch size since it's 1/2 as powerful.  So that's 2.25TH of the total new network hash power total of  17.25TH on the network after the first batches of these new models goes online (unless the batches are MUCH larger, which seems unlikely).  So what we're really looking at difficulty wise is a 14% increase in network hashrate give or take a couple percent, so I would expect a differential increase comparable to the increase in total net hash, rather than one directly correlated in a 1:1 ratio based on how much more powerful these particular devices are.

There are also other factors to consider, such as miners leaving the network because the difficulty goes up too high for their profit margins to hold (vis a vis Ethereum), and that will reduce the overall network capacity, slowing the rate of difficulty increase for a while at least.


500 A5 @30GH is equal to 15000MH (15TH). I think it's quite realistic to have the difficulty increase 5-10x by October.