Re: BlockBurner - Crucible FPGA Scrypt Miner - Going Legit
It is really with no offense personally that I must tip-toe around these kinds of questions. I hope it is understood we have our own IP and as such I cannot divulge certain details. That is not to say however I consider it a closed book.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say you guys haven't actually developed any IP yet. Just a hunch. I think one of the reasons for (more than one claimed FPGA scrypt development teams) not releasing any technical details is to avoid getting ripped apart by anyone with a better understanding of scrypt if you reveal any errors that shows you don't have anything.
A couple weeks ago, someone posted a solicitation for investors on his FPGA scrypt development project, which at face value looked legitimate. People were waving money like crazy trying to get in on the ground floor. But then he made the mistake of revealing just a little too much, at which point we laid in and ripped apart his technical understanding of scrypt, ultimately resulting in him reluctantly admitting he actually had nothing but a vague idea that maybe FPGA's might work for scrypt, and didn't even have an understanding of how scrypt worked. It headed downhill fast when he started posting code from mtrlt's Reaper OpenCL kernel while trying to debate mtrlt himself about what the code even did. It was a most joyous and fun thread, but at least it probably saved a lot of people with little understanding from losing money on it.
As much as I appreciate offers to help us develop this product, there is a fine line in terms of having too many cooks in the kitchen so to speak.
To do this will require a crowd-sourced effort, which would be conducted through various forums as well as things like Kickstarter campaigns and the like.
LOL, 2 developers on a closed project isn't quite a crowd-sourced effort.
I already encountered that issue sifting through the many developers that applied in the beginning, unfortunately many more got turned down than got "in". I had no idea around 20 of you would want to be a part of it, which totally blew me away. Decisions just had to be made.
I actually didn't care one way or the other, as it quickly became clear you weren't pursuing any sort of open development effort and were actually just trying to base a business on the creative output of others without really having the technical skillset to contribute directly to development yourself. But just as a point of curiosity, how many of the 20 interested developers had (or claimed to have) existing working scrypt FPGA implementations? Or had ever taped-out a custom ASIC design?