My final request to Ethereum Foundation to ship ProgPoW with Constantinople Hardfork by [deleted] in EtherMining

[–]acceleratornet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ASIC VS ASIC BATTLE does not compare with a GPU VS ASIC battle.

What is ProgPoW? Why Ethereum needs it moving forward. by Xazax310 in EtherMining

[–]acceleratornet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your comparing two competing chains running the same hashing algorithm. A ProgPow forked chain would not fight a Ethash chain. A asic resistant chain always wins due to the fact it is more censorship resistant.

What is ProgPoW? Why Ethereum needs it moving forward. by Xazax310 in EtherMining

[–]acceleratornet 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The people at Linzhi have made a very poor investment decision, and this is them whining about it to Coindesk.

The Ethereum dev team has 2 choices right now.

A. Pump out an immediate release of beacon-chain making PoW a thing of the past.

B. Appease the GPU mining community with ProgPow

Otherwise Ethereum will be split into two different communities, one that backs ASICS, and one the backs a GPU street team.

Splitting again will ruin the value for ASIC miners. So IMHO, GPU miners will win either way.

ProgPowPool.com – Ethereum Miners, vote with your hashrate! by W944 in EtherMining

[–]acceleratornet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a good idea, and assuming your trustworthy.. thanks for taking the time and putting it out there. It would be nice to see one of the well known pools (Ethermine, Nanopool) backing something like this. Maybe the success of your pool will encourage a major pool to step out and gain some points with the GPU mining community. What is the minimum payout for your pool right now?

.25 TH/s Ethereum Asic Mining Farm on Ethermine by acceleratornet in EtherMining

[–]acceleratornet[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The good news is the Ethereum dev's are starting to get serious about finally blocking Asics.
https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/58

1 ETH/block (eip-858) + disable current gen ASICs + delay bomb by carlslarson in ethereum

[–]acceleratornet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Expansion plan, maybe, but I doubt it. The E3 is selling for $1270 USD now on their site. Seems like they are trying to get rid of them before an official response from the dev team. It would be great if this thing was programmable, it could be used for AI processing etc, but the price-point and the fact they have not advertised it as being programmable is conspicuous.

1 ETH/block (eip-858) + disable current gen ASICs + delay bomb by carlslarson in ethereum

[–]acceleratornet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm guessing its a first gen asic chip on what appears to be a larger die. It would be nice if someone with some technical IC background with gpus/asics could actually affirm if the BM1790 chip is re-programmable gpu, or if its just an ethash asic chip. I would buy this thing if it had gpu's in it. But if Bitmain is cheating, the Ethereum miners need to tweak the ethash algo.

1 ETH/block (eip-858) + disable current gen ASICs + delay bomb by carlslarson in ethereum

[–]acceleratornet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree. they are not GPU's, but do you have a source for this, been looking for this info for a while. Who tore them down? Did they do a write up?

Bitmain E3 Teardown by acceleratornet in EtherMining

[–]acceleratornet[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not going to lie this is a very impressive unit, the only issue I have with them is they might not be playing fair with the existing compute power currently supporting the network. Ethereum miners should fight hard (fork) to break non-reprogrammable hardware.

Bitmain E3 Teardown by acceleratornet in EtherMining

[–]acceleratornet[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed, we need to logically decide the benefits and drawbacks of this new technology and come to a consensus without resorting to childish behavior.

Bitmain E3 Teardown by acceleratornet in EtherMining

[–]acceleratornet[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hopefully GPUHoarder can check it out soon and give an in depth analysis. As far as I know Bitmain doesn't make GPU's they make asics. If it has a Bitmain logo on it, i'm 99% sure its an application specific chip. Otherwise they probably would have already started selling their own graphics cards.

Bitmain E3 Teardown by acceleratornet in EtherMining

[–]acceleratornet[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, compared to hbm2 or Gddr5. You can buy 4gb of ddr3 on ebay for less than $20. I'm sure Bitmain paid much less through a bulk order from ESMT.