Quote from: vapourminer on May 05, 2018, 10:53:33 AM

Quote from: yrk1957 on May 05, 2018, 08:22:53 AM

[AMD and Nvidia]

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.

i wonder that also. its one thing to put out custom mining cards, but for either company to actually design a coin, figure a use for it (store of value, utility, whatever) its algos, and get it traded on exchanges seems pretty risky as now they are directly involved in "printing money" so to speak. thats way out of their normal business.

maybe a spinoff company? dunno.

and what if the coin bombs? just because amd or nvidia makes it doesnt mean it wont be just another shitcoin. might be a lot of r&d down the tubes.

they might be able to (unofficially? but thats risky too if caught) support some devs of an existing or new coin. or be an advisor or something.

i can see devs moving to algos that need 10 gb or more (1080ti class memory) in the short term but even that wont hold back asic/fpga for long, looks like its getting much easier to add large chunks of ram to fpga, the uxppr3 has 4 rdimm slots in it. plus its ability to take (the super expensive and stupid fast) qdrii+ memory.

im still gonna risk a fpga. i must admit it will be mainly for the fun and to play with it. i dont really see it as a super weapon or major money maker though. but i dont see it as being super terrible, i would think it would eventually make its money back but years vs months? who knows.

I can wait to watch it shake out. I am down from 60x 1080tis to 18 of them. The 18 make a small profit.

For now I am more interested in LTC as it has a ton of asic hash and is mature.

I bookmarked this thread. As I would most likely order one of these once it is mature.

I also know if asic and fpga trash gpu profits. There will be a glut of cards on the market if this happens Nvidia and AMD won't sell much of the new cards they make.
I have to think they will do something about that.