Quote from: UrsaUrsa on May 03, 2018, 03:22:50 PM

Hey guys,

A bit off topic as it's not solar related but what do you think? Should we be at least a bit worried by the FPGA topic? If you haven't seen it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3459858.0;all

The numbers they're posting are insane, 4x of a 1080ti. I know they are expensive but within months they could screw GPU mining over. ETA from the dev guy is 30th of May. The lead time on these Xilinx cards is 8 weeks. I don't wanna blindly order one and ending up renting it out on amazon AWS to make at least some of my money back he doesn't deliver.

I wished him luck. What do I think it means with a ton of funding it will alter gpu mining.

The only way gpu mining would survive would be many many many many al-gore-rythm switches

A new coin would need to come out called the al-gore-rythm of the month coin.

The developer of the coin would need a dozen al-gore-rythm's made up and ready to switch in. On the first of every month.

Nvidia and AMD could fund that if they want crypto coin business.

Even if the fpga guy was good he would have trouble switching each and every month.

Will be interesting to see this unfold.

Side note His 4% development fee is huge.

Side note make LTC look better as it has a lot of asic hash already.

Not so sure the crypto coin industry will thrive without a huge base that gpus give