Reflection
Sometime back in 2013, crypto-mining was all the rage. Fun operations turned into devops management, as my winter turned into a summer. What else did I get out of it though?
It was not terribly fun when you look at the stress/effort vs the eventual returns, tt was a break-even at best. Efficiency decreased rapidly with the introduction of ASIC miners into the market.
Well, at least I'm left with useful parts for gaming and OpenCL experimentation.
GPU Method
Equip List
Cost calculated with estimated depreciation over 3 years.
Estimated Hashrate:
ROI:
Resources:
FPGA Method [Abandoned]
Equip List
$330 - Altera DE2-115 demo board
Coding in verilog, systemverilog
Goal is to implement Scrypt in FPGA, proof of concept to evaluate kHash/sec and estimate ROI.
Resources