How are these used?

[megadarkwood]

In class, cant add much sorry.

 

https://products.butterflylabs.com/homepage-subproducts/65nm-asic-bitcoin-mining-chip.html

[Excon]

They're re cheap CPUs that are effective at bitcoin mining.

[megadarkwood]

They're re cheap CPUs that are effective at bitcoin mining.

Yeah but what socket do they go in .etc

[BenDreadful]

well, let's wait until someone orders them and then wait a year or so for butterfly labs to actually deliver them and then we'll see if they're legit.

 

on a more serious note, I'm guessing this is for a build-your-own-miner sort of thing plus it's aimed for larger players since "Minimum purchase:  100 chips" and that equals to $7,500

[megadarkwood]

well, let's wait until someone orders them and then wait a year or so for butterfly labs to actually deliver them and then we'll see if they're legit.

 

on a more serious note, I'm guessing this is for a build-your-own-miner sort of thing plus it's aimed for larger players since "Minimum purchase:  100 chips" and that equals to $7,500

I can get 15 for $25. Pre-order ofc.

[SMURG]

They look like BGA chips, i.e. they will be compatible with a certain variant of boards which they are then soldered onto.

[SMURG]

well, let's wait until someone orders them and then wait a year or so for butterfly labs to actually deliver them and then we'll see if they're legit.

 

on a more serious note, I'm guessing this is for a build-your-own-miner sort of thing plus it's aimed for larger players since "Minimum purchase:  100 chips" and that equals to $7,500

They're definitely intended for 'larger players' - more specifically, third party manufacturers. The boards which these chips work in essentially do not exist. There is a reference design available but it's up to the manufacturer exactly how they make use of that schematic.

 

Yeah but what socket do they go in .etc

They are BGA chips - unless there is a generic "144" BGA socket design (I'm not familiar enough with the standard) then they are soldered directly to a board which is already wired to work with them.

 

I can get 15 for $25. Pre-order ofc.

You'd struggle to make use of them unless you have some way to build a board using the provided schematic or someone else makes a board without soldering the chip on...

[BenDreadful]

They're definitely intended for 'larger players' - more specifically, third party manufacturers. The boards which these chips work in essentially do not exist. There is a reference design available but it's up to the manufacturer exactly how they make use of that schematic.

 

They are BGA chips - unless there is a generic "144" BGA socket design (I'm not familiar enough with the standard) then they are soldered directly to a board which is already wired to work with them.

 

You'd struggle to make use of them unless you have some way to build a board using the provided schematic or someone else makes a board without soldering the chip on...

 

thanks for clearing that up

[Guest]

https://products.butterflylabs.com/homepage-new-products/600-gh-bitcoin-mining-card.html

 

whoaoaooaoaoaao 600GH/s

[BenDreadful]

https://products.butterflylabs.com/homepage-new-products/600-gh-bitcoin-mining-card.html

 

whoaoaooaoaoaao 600GH/s

 

wait, that's a render and not the actual image of the card? lol, butterfly labs, making people wait a year for their products AGAIN.

[Guest]

wait, that's a render and not the actual image of the card? lol, butterfly labs, making people wait a year for their products AGAIN.

looks like a render to me because of the way it's shadow is propelled and how the pci slot is not actully there but is a grey paint

[SMURG]

https://products.butterflylabs.com/homepage-new-products/600-gh-bitcoin-mining-card.html

 

whoaoaooaoaoaao 600GH/s

This is actually something I could get on board with. CPU sockets are proprietary by nature so a bitcoin-mining CPU? No. A bitcoin-mining PCIe device though? Now we're talking.

[BenDreadful]

This is actually something I could get on board with. CPU sockets are proprietary by nature so a bitcoin-mining CPU? No. A bitcoin-mining PCIe device though? Now we're talking.

 

but still, since bitcoin mining is getting harder and harder, add to that the reputation of butterfly labs plus that the card is still only a render, it wouldn't surprise me that when these actually come out they will be obsolete.

 

but that's just me

[mineblaster]

it looks like a gpu style chip and to be sold like gpus are sold to board partners ASUS gigabyte MSI etc you could build your own but it will be less effecent and alot of learning on the way there

[SMURG]

but still, since bitcoin mining is getting harder and harder, add to that the reputation of butterfly labs plus that the card is still only a render, it wouldn't surprise me that when these actually come out they will be obsolete.

 

but that's just me

Oh absolutely, I'm not gonna buy one of these things on faith. I'm just saying a PCIe-based ASIC would be something I'd look at.

[Ssoele]

These cards could make it super cheap to make a brute-forcing password cracker.

[bcredeur97]

These cards could make it super cheap to make a brute-forcing password cracker.

but who uses SHA-256 for passwords anymore???? everyone is using AES

[Ssoele]

but who uses SHA-256 for passwords anymore???? everyone is using AES

 

AES is encryption, it means with the key, it can be reversed. SHA is a hash algorithm, meaning it can't be reversed. If someone is using AES to store passwords, they should be fired!