I dont see how this can work because FPGA is more costly than asic, yes? This reminds me of how baikal miners are always more expensive than bitmains.


Compare 50 different asics that mine 5 different coins

With

50 FPGAs that can mine the 5 coins and switch to each coin, I believe the FPGAs are clear cut more expensive yes?

For the 50 FPGAs, u can maybe buy maybe 60-150 asics? And it wont matter if u can switch because when the asics mine 3 of those 5 coins, all FPGAs/GPUs will go to the last 2 coins and try to mine them. Problem is that will increase difficulty of those 2 coins so much that u will earn little anyways.


Furthermore, new asics will be designed economically and manufactured via economies of scale cheaply. I dont see how that can be more economical against a retail user buying an FPGA card from a manufacturer peacemeal. U are paying higher for the switching capability and lack of scale.


Perhaps calculate how much an FPGA that mine an existing asic algo would cost on a per MH/TH basis against one of the asics already out there to get an idea of the gap?


Just my 2 cents speculation