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Use CRIO to mine bitcoins?

The CRIO has an FPGA, so could one theoretically program the FPGA to mine bitcoins during the offseason to make money for a team?
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Re: Use CRIO to mine bitcoins?

Recycling the bottles and cans you consume during build season is virtually guaranteed to make you more money.

Unless you partake in pooled mining, it is almost certain that you will spend more money on electricity than you will make in bitcoins (if you make any at all).
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Re: Use CRIO to mine bitcoins?

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Unless you partake in pooled mining, it is almost certain that you will spend more money on electricity than you will make in bitcoins (if you make any at all).
FPGA mining from what I have heard is quite efficient, so the power draw should not be an issue. The CRIO would draw what, 10W max? What I am wondering is whether it would be possible to program the FPGA for mining.
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Re: Use CRIO to mine bitcoins?

The cRIO does not stand a chance unless you get extremely lucky. Take a look at the article below.

http://gizmodo.com/5994446/digital-d...t-mine-bitcoin
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Re: Use CRIO to mine bitcoins?

I lol'ed even at the concept of this. Pretty clever idea though, although not ideal for mining haha
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Re: Use CRIO to mine bitcoins?

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I lol'ed even at the concept of this. Pretty clever idea though, although not ideal for mining haha
This isn't a joke, apparently people have made FPGA miners using the same FPGA chips that are in cRIOs.
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Re: Use CRIO to mine bitcoins?

This sounds like a project to try! Though I know fully well that I could never convince my advisors to allow me to do this lol
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Re: Use CRIO to mine bitcoins?

I laughed because it was a unique idea, not that it was a bad one . I would say go for it, a couple btc in the offseason can't hurt
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Re: Use CRIO to mine bitcoins?

So, does anybody know how to program the FPGA directly? There are already mining programs available for the family of FPGA chips being used, but they are meant for dev boards where you can upload the code directly.
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[R96] Bitcoins mined in this way may only be used to lease time on 1625's WIN pump
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Re: Use CRIO to mine bitcoins?

My neighbor works in the financial markets and was recently talking about FPGA based trading bots -- and how his firm doesn't do this despite the success of some firms. So when I read this, I thought you were wanting to put team money into pork belly futures and ...

The tools for programming the FPGA have been granted in the past to teams looking to do offseason projects. Your options are to program in LV or in VHDL. I would assume that IP for the hash is readily available and you'd replicate it to the brim to fill up the FPGA, wait out the compile, and then use LV or RIO drivers to load it into the FPGA on boot. You then write a small RT program to seed and harvest the FPGA registers you are interested in.

If you succeed, you can spend them on this ... sweet ride.


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Re: Use CRIO to mine bitcoins?

one of my good friends and team members has a really successful business mining bitcoins. If you have any real questions about it I would ask him.
http://cognitivemining.com
message him here or email him at garrett@64.name
explain who you are and tell him Adam Crandall sent you from CD (i've got connections)
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Re: Use CRIO to mine bitcoins?

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Recycling the bottles and cans you consume during build season is virtually guaranteed to make you more money.

Unless you partake in pooled mining, it is almost certain that you will spend more money on electricity than you will make in bitcoins (if you make any at all).
If only there were 2500+ robotic teams with 1 or more cRios then we could have an FRC pool of FPGA miners. But seriously were would we find 2500+ robotic teams with 1 or more cRios?
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If only there were 2500+ robotic teams with 1 or more cRios then we could have an FRC pool of FPGA miners. But seriously were would we find 2500+ robotic teams with 1 or more cRios?
I don't know about you, but our cRIOs are constantly in use on robots year round...
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