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Re: Use CRIO to mine bitcoins?

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Originally Posted by ferret_guy View Post
It looks like using the crio II Spartan-6 fpga you get about 100 Mhash/s so if 2500 teams do 100 Mhash/s you would do 250 Ghash/s or ~$56,975.96 a month
That is likely the largest Spartan-6. The cRIO's FPGA is 1/3 the size of the largest Spartan-6, so you can expect 1/3 the performance. My guess is it is probably not clocked at the maximum rate for the Spartan-6, so you get even worse performance.