progranism/Open-Source-FPGA-Bitcoin-Miner

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1377 stars · 544 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A fully open-source VHDL implementation of a Bitcoin miner for Altera and Xilinx FPGAs, supporting pool and solo mining as well as Namecoins. It ships with a binary release for the Terasic DE2-115 board and compile-able projects for numerous other FPGA boards.

Use cases

• mine bitcoin with an FPGA development board
• open-source FPGA mining implementation for Altera and Xilinx
• run a miner on a Terasic DE2-115 board
• mine namecoins using FPGA hardware
• study or modify FPGA bitcoin mining hardware in VHDL

When to choose

• you own a supported FPGA board like the Terasic DE2-115 and want to mine Bitcoin or Namecoins
• you want a fully open-source, modifiable FPGA mining design
• you want to learn FPGA development through a real hashing workload

When to avoid

• you want to mine profitably on modern hardware - FPGA mining is long obsolete compared to ASICs
• you need GPU or CPU mining software
• you have no FPGA hardware or toolchain experience

Facets

application · maturity maintenance

cryptography embedded hardware embedded-systems cross-platform windows fpga bitcoin-mining vhdl altera xilinx hardware-mining cryptocurrency linux

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