Basically it is Bitcoin mining using a BOINC client and since they wrote a client for “asic” miners, crunchers running asic have been running up huge numbers.
You and I seem to be the select few still really crunching here Fiend. I think over time the fun has gone and we now just have so many other things going on that need attention we just well stopped. I’ll keep going until the electric bills get to high or something happens with equipment. It is always fun to help with science even when it is just a few work units.
I still crunch Rosetta and SETI, but only when I’m working on the PC or laptop. Can’t leave things on 24/7 like I used to, but still keeping things ticking over.
Like you said though Greg, the fun has gone out of it since the introduction of BOINC, taking away the tweaking aspect of the process, but I still keep it going for the science and the chance to potentially help someone in the future. Real life does get in the way as well, but not to the same degree as others.
do I understand correct, they created a boinc for ASICS primarily to doing bitcoin mining, for then some projects now offering an asics crunching client? So basically the same kicker in production output that was CPU>GPU
Milkway@Home is now needs to support itself on donations to continue the science. and Bitcoin Utopia has made a significant contribution to keeping it going.
Bitcoin Utopia now have a campaign running to generate funds for SETI@Home. Even though I stopped crunching SETI I will do a little BU crunching for them.
A while ago I acquired one of those “ASIC” as a test to see if I could get it to run but couldn’t get it running. but gave up and forgot about it… Had another try today and got it running within 10 minutes… It only cost £10 but looks like it’ll generate at least 250K BOINC points per day.
I might run it until it hit 10 Million then create a new account and run it under the name “Team Phoenix Rising Donation”
[QUOTE=TheFiend;466784]A while ago I acquired one of those “ASIC” as a test to see if I could get it to run but couldn’t get it running. but gave up and forgot about it… Had another try today and got it running within 10 minutes… It only cost £10 but looks like it’ll generate at least 250K BOINC points per day.
I might run it until it hit 10 Million then create a new account and run it under the name “Team Phoenix Rising Donation”[/QUOTE]
link to them for a tenner? by crunching, they running a boinc project for science or purely for bitcoin. Standalone device for a tenner? Curiosity got me
I picked up one of these for £10, it was a used one.
After plugging it in to a USB port and using the updated instructions on the Bitcoin Utopia Q & A section after attaching it to the project it started crunching away.
Basically Bitcoin Utopia is generating bitcoins which are then used for funding projects, some of which are BOINC related including SETI and Milkyway.
My single ASIC so far is averaging 350K cobblestones per day