Guys I'm super excited about this personally and want to help as much as I can!
I'll discuss internally if and how BitFury could contribute to this project. Our reference design PCB for 16nm is almost done and could be used as a starting point should BitFury's chip be selected.
Again nice words, but zero acting. What would be the minimum amount of $ required in order to sell chips to the forum hardware manufacturers?
Bitfury wants $1m upfront for a batch of their chips if that's what you are asking