are these bullshit ? scam ?
these what? give a link
I believe that is just SHA256 bitcoin miner.
It will not work with Zcash.
mabey open source version
these kind of thinga
it does read âbitcoin minerâ doesnt it?
yeh that was an example⌠mabey you get ones u can edit open source
asic stands for application specific integrated circuit, a piece of hardware which you cant âeditâ to mine some other algorithm
someone make one quick then
it doesnt work that way
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Yea, zCash was made to try and be ASIC resilient. Also, completely different cryptography algorithm
⌠generally speaking you can âedit asicâ as itâs just a chip which runs some piece of sw that you can change⌠however it all depends on a variety of factors
you cant, its hardware
you can however âeditâ fpgaâs
you donât âeditâ hw, but like everything else it runs software, which can be modified.
fpga is a different story, you can actually program how hw would function ⌠and then run sw on it
yes you could modify the control software, but the asic, the hardware, the functions built in it, you cant edit those.
you cant change how your asic works, and if your asic only supports function X but not function Y bad luck, design a new one
modifying the control software however doesnt offer the use of existing miners for different algorithms
This is a very old Bitcoin (SHA-256) ASIC.
Beware of anyone trying to sell any âZCash ASICâ.
They donât exist and the hashing algorithm which ZCash uses was designed to prevent the development of ASIC miners for ZCash.
There are a lot of scammers and con artists who are aware of ZCash and these lowlifes will try to sell you non-existent ZCash ASICS. Just laugh at them and tell them youâre nobodyâs fool.
The Ethereum mining community has been dealing with these scammers for well over a year and since weâre all a pretty smart bunch weâve run them off.
Donât be surprised if they start popping up here spamming their scams.
it works like this: you have various hw pieces: control units(say riscs, which runs the sw) alus, mems, other devices sitting on various buses ⌠but whatever it does TOTALY depends on the sw you run on it, which obviously can be limited in certain ways by the hw capabilities
yep. if youâd need to add very fast and expensive memory in large quantities alongside asics, you may end up with a very expensive and good for nothing piece of crap⌠if the âASIC-proofâ design of the algo was indeed proper.
Without knowing nothing about how ETH or ZEC achieve it Iâd guess that for every 2-4GB of GDDR5 you can put some specific hw that can probably manage to give similar performance to GPUâŚwith lower power consumption and maybe slightly lower costs. still itâs going to be very expensive, good for nothing else and comparable in watt to hash ratio to GPUs
A zcash ASIC is most certainly possible.
But the point with an ASIC is that you have chips which are constructed specifically to optimize particular operations. The transistors are physically laid out in such a way that they do a specific thing.
You canât edit this. You need to produce a new mask and send that mask to production.
Think of an ASIC as a very specialized CPU that only does one thing, but does it extremely well.
Now, that saidâŚ
There is a trend in ASIC manufacturing to actually ship FPGAs that have been overclocked. But these almost always have their code loading pathways burnt out.
Nevertheless, if the algorithm is describable in opencl there are FPGAs for it. These FPGAs provide a direct path to ASIC and they have far higher memory bandwidth than is available for general purpose computing.
The problem is that the devkits on these FPGAs start at $10k and once youâre production ready, even at volume prices youâre still talking $3 - $4k per chip and thatâs not counting all the extra circuitry and other requirements to make it a proper miner.
The real question is what would the speed up be on an FPGA or ASIC? The answer is not much compared to a quality GPU and those can be had for far less money, so your ROI on an equihash FPGA or ASIC would be far longer.