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by vessenes 43 days ago
Monerites - what’s the state of play for fpga mining? I did not see anything in the light documentation of RandomX that looked like it was tuned to be “awkward” for a good sized fpga.
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FPGAs have no particular advantage. You could dedicate a chunk of their resources to implement a softcore CPU but it'd be several times slower than a real CPU.

The random programs change too quickly to just implement them directly on an FPGA. Reprogramming the entire chip like that takes too much time.