The FPGA Mining Guide

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Like a lot of my fellow miners out there, I came from a GPU mining world. As a GPU miner myself, I was both curious and concerned about the growing FPGA mining ecosystem. After weeks of research and testing, we compiled the first version of the FPGA.guide to share what we've learned so far.

This is now the fourth revision of FPGA.guide. In the past year, we've grown to nearly 1500 subscribers and had the pleasure of working with many great companies and developers like:

🚍 Cafe3d @ TUL
🔥 whitefire990 @ Zetheron Technologies
🏎️ Ruplikmastik666
◼️ HashAltCoin
🐿️ GPUHoarder @ SQRL Research
⏭️ NextDesignSolutions

We've learned a lot from the community, and continue to see this space grow in both impact and value.

🍻 A toast to the exciting future! From The FPGA.guide Team ✌️

Why should I care about FPGAs?

Even in today's bear market, FPGAs generate up to $11 USD a day(per March 27th, 2019). Below are confirmed numbers for the BCU 1525 FPGA board and F1 Blackminer FPGA board.

️️️️️️⚒️ Algorithm	💻 Hardware	🏃 Speed	🔋 Power
Tribus	NVIDIA 1080TI GPU	100 MH/s	190 W
	BCU 1525 FPGA	1.95 GH/s	350 W
	F1 Blackminer FPGA	2.8 GH/s	600 W
Keccak-ZP	NVIDIA 1080TI GPU	1.2 GH/s	220 W
	BCU 1525 FPGA	15 GH/s	350 W
	F1 Blackminer FPGA	21 GH/s	610 W
0xToken	NVIDIA 1080TI GPU	1.5 GH/s	200 W
	BCU 1525 FPGA	18 GH/s	350 W
	F1 Blackminer FPGA	21.6 GH/s	605 W

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