I plan to make an fpga mining device for bitcoin mining just for the fun of it. I thought understanding bitcoin as whole would be the first step to take. However I realize that understanding the whole verification and transaction process in bitcoin would take a lot of time. Time that I really dont have. So I just wanted to know what would be the most important things to know related to bitcoin before getting started as only solving the nonce would be the part that I write in verilog/vhdl. The remaining part related to understanding how bitcoin uses Script and processes transaction would be quite unnecessary to know since I am not going to use it for the project. Having said that knowing how the whole system works is important and I will do it but from the point of view of an fpga mining device I would like to know on what to really focus on?
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How much verilog/VHDL do you know?– Nick ODellCommented May 30, 2013 at 5:33
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Not too much.I am getting started on that too but I have someone to guide me for the verilog part– EnthusiastCommented May 30, 2013 at 13:02
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possible duplicate of How do I mine with FPGAs?– Murch ♦Commented Sep 24, 2013 at 20:13
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See: Open Source FPGA miner and additional info
answered May 30, 2013 at 5:40
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I had already looked at the open source fpga miner but I guess I forgot to mention it in the question. I will defintely look at hard core forensics. Do you think I should focus on any specific part of the bitcoin protocol Commented May 30, 2013 at 13:06