On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 13:20 -0600, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:

See, to deploy 10 GH/s of Bitcoin hash power using FPGA would require you to purchase about $10,000 worth of hardware which has no resell value except to other Bitcoin miners.

You can currently purchase an FPGA mining rig that produces 25.2 GH/s from Butterfly Labs for $15,295.00: http://www.butterflylabs.com/products/ -- I)ruid, C2ISSP druid@caughq.org http://druid.caughq.org _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE