FPGA Mining
Mining● Common
Using Field-Programmable Gate Arrays for Bitcoin mining, prevalent in 2011-2012 between the GPU and ASIC eras. FPGAs offered better efficiency than GPUs but were quickly obsoleted by purpose-built ASICs. Rarely used for Bitcoin mining today.
Technical Notes
FPGAs: reconfigurable chips programmed for specific tasks. Bitcoin FPGA miners: ~800 MH/s, ~80 MH/J. Replaced by ASICs in 2013 offering 10-100× better efficiency. Still used for altcoins with ASIC-resistant algorithms and for prototyping ASIC designs.
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Created:1/3/2026by System