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Hey rscasny  great post and great questions.

As a miner I certainly try to find new and better ways about increasing my profits.  That's just a given so tinkering with all manners of making extra coin is one of those things we

are certainly willing to toss a few dollars into researching new ideas and possibly get the upper hand if its not.  With power consumption and costs I have seen tons of solar powered mining stations that are pretty sweet but once you calculate the cost of setup of some of the rigs they have to have it running for more then 5 years to see a substantial profit and by then the machines  most likely asic miners for scrypt or other low powered devices vs the sha256 of the bitcoin and others.

I have a few asic miners that will do both Scrypt and Sha256 and let me tell you the heat and power draw when it comes to Sha256 mining is huge.

I have used everything from servers to graphics cards asic miners and even my router is a miner if I can incorporate it at a low power consumption into my setup then its great.  In the winter time tho that is when I start up my bigger rigs tho they stay pretty dormant in the dead of summer just because cooling costs for both the units and my house.

I still have not done with FPGA but have done tons of research on it.  The zedboard would be a great starting point before heading into the higher end alternatives in my opinion allows one to collect overall profitability with FPGA  designs. 

So when it does come to mining yes one hundred percent your going to have to be in it for the long haul.  If you want instant gratification then rent a few miners and there you go but in the end its best to just slowly up your coin. 

From my research tho your mb/s on scrypt mining on a raspberry pi would be 1/3 of that of zedboard from the comparisons that I have seen but with some tweaking I am sure the results could very on that.

When it comes to FPGA Mining tho I have always waited instead of just jumping in on it the cost is one and well I don't have any boards that would do the trick to get me started with seeing how the power consumption and  how the profit scale would be after that.

If anyone on the board does or has a FPGA Miner running tho please post some stats that you might have I would certainly be interest in what your using and the results your getting with it as well.  Also if solo or pool mining.

As far as a ledger goes I just have a offline pi I toss online here and there to keep my coin a ledger is a great idea tho but everything has their flaws and to me its not quite there for me to be all in on the ledger aspect of it.  using a ledger for not so important data would be alright tho but something like that I need something tried tested and true to being reliable and for me that's been my pi setup.

I run pi's on most of my asic miners and have a great gui for monitoring my setup I know some miner rely on beaglebone as their heart and soul but still have not tried them out.

Maybe I should grab a Zedboard at some point and take it for a rip.

oh the utlra 96 is probably one of the most sought after to getting started in FPGA Mining but there is tons of alternatives.

Hey rscasny  great post and great questions.

As a miner I certainly try to find new and better ways about increasing my profits.  That's just a given so tinkering with all manners of making extra coin is one of those things we

are certainly willing to toss a few dollars into researching new ideas and possibly get the upper hand if its not.  With power consumption and costs I have seen tons of solar powered mining stations that are pretty sweet but once you calculate the cost of setup of some of the rigs they have to have it running for more then 5 years to see a substantial profit and by then the machines  most likely asic miners for scrypt or other low powered devices vs the sha256 of the bitcoin and others.

I have a few asic miners that will do both Scrypt and Sha256 and let me tell you the heat and power draw when it comes to Sha256 mining is huge.

I have used everything from servers to graphics cards asic miners and even my router is a miner if I can incorporate it at a low power consumption into my setup then its great.  In the winter time tho that is when I start up my bigger rigs tho they stay pretty dormant in the dead of summer just because cooling costs for both the units and my house.

I still have not done with FPGA but have done tons of research on it.  The zedboard would be a great starting point before heading into the higher end alternatives in my opinion allows one to collect overall profitability with FPGA  designs. 

So when it does come to mining yes one hundred percent your going to have to be in it for the long haul.  If you want instant gratification then rent a few miners and there you go but in the end its best to just slowly up your coin. 

From my research tho your mb/s on scrypt mining on a raspberry pi would be 1/3 of that of zedboard from the comparisons that I have seen but with some tweaking I am sure the results could very on that.

When it comes to FPGA Mining tho I have always waited instead of just jumping in on it the cost is one and well I don't have any boards that would do the trick to get me started with seeing how the power consumption and  how the profit scale would be after that.

If anyone on the board does or has a FPGA Miner running tho please post some stats that you might have I would certainly be interest in what your using and the results your getting with it as well.  Also if solo or pool mining.

As far as a ledger goes I just have a offline pi I toss online here and there to keep my coin a ledger is a great idea tho but everything has their flaws and to me its not quite there for me to be all in on the ledger aspect of it.  using a ledger for not so important data would be alright tho but something like that I need something tried tested and true to being reliable and for me that's been my pi setup.

I run pi's on most of my asic miners and have a great gui for monitoring my setup I know some miner rely on beaglebone as their heart and soul but still have not tried them out.

Maybe I should grab a Zedboard at some point and take it for a rip.

oh the utlra 96 is probably one of the most sought after to getting started in FPGA Mining but there is tons of alternatives.