Quote from: philipma1957 on May 05, 2018, 04:47:30 AM

Quote from: flankiee on May 05, 2018, 04:05:03 AM

This is a very interesting discussion, everyone stands on their own interests, and op just wants to add a way to mine. Let time prove everything.

I am very interested in the economic structure of mining.

Millions of rigs can mine with gpus. So this reduces that or does the market shift? To adjust to this?

I cant see crypto coins succeeding without gpus.

5000 dollar FPGA cards dont cut it if you need 10 x 10 card rigs. 100 x 5000 = 500000 dollars

Where is the driving force to get more of them? If the coin developers dont resist FPGA why should they resist asics? So FPGA will simply be all replaced by asics.

So once again how fast does the op upgrade your FPGA? If a coin switches every month? If it takes 2 weeks your gear costs 2x what you thought it would.

And if the developer say fuck it let asics take over FPGA is not fast enough.

So for this FPGA to work you need just a bit of forks not too many.

This is why I wish the op luck earlier in the thread.
He has to hope both amd and nvidia give up on Mining . Do nothing .

This could happen.

He also needs some resistance from developers ie some forks. But not too many forks.

This could happen.

I can wait and see. My 18x nvidia 1080ti earn more then 40 a day after power . They are paid off.

I could get lucky if forking becomes the norm. As I do see that too many forks make FPGA hard to profit.

Why do you think AMD/Nvidia are even in the mining game?

What does Nvidia get when a retailer price gouges while selling a card? Zero. NVidia would make money by selling chips to board manufacturers or selling cards directly. Do you know if NVidia has marked up its chip prices due to mining?

Its does not seem interested in selling cards directly as its store is almost always out of stock and always at sane prices (e.g. 1080ti at $699).

If it was interested in mining, it would stock up its store and mark up its prices due to high demand. Clearly that has not happened.

And would a public listed company risk investing heavily in crypto market, which faces regulatory challenges worldwide? It would an extremely adventurous move to say the least.