progranism/Open-Source-FPGA-Bitcoin-Miner

A completely open source implementation of a Bitcoin Miner for Altera and Xilinx FPGAs. This project hopes to promote the free and open development of FPGA based mining solutions and secure the future of the Bitcoin project as a whole. A binary release is currently available for the Terasic DE2-115 Development Board, and there are compile-able projects for numerous boards.

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From the README

Open-Source FPGA Bitcoin Miner Copyright (C) 2011 [email protected] See LICENSE.txt Purpose To promote the free and open development of an FPGA based Bitcoin mining solution. Project Status Project is fully functional and allows mining of Bitcoins both in a Pool and Solo. It also supports Namecoins. Current Performance: 109 MHash/s *On a Terasic DE2-115 Development Board* *Note: The included default configuration file, and source files, are built for 50 MHash/s performance (downclocked).

Hacker News discussions

• Open source FPGA Bitcoin miner (2 points, 0 comments, by DigitalJack, 2013-11-30)
• Open-Source FPGA Bitcoin Miner (1 points, 0 comments, by ColanR, 2020-04-20)

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