no interest in selling your miner or dev services?
also is that normal to have the intro pricing then jack it up, whitefire also says its $4k now but 5k + next month
It's the first time I've ever seen a company do that with FPGAs, that's for sure. Only avnet is doing it, digikey wants $5200/board for low QTY. My pricing just depends on chip order quantity, the more ordered, the lower the price is going to get.
I don't trust % fees for dev services because they're so easy to avoid paying.
Well, it's going be inevitable if whitefire does release his with dev fee. Why not tap into the market and collect residual for yourself regardless? If you have something that is already done, and then whitefire releases his, people are going use whitefire no matter what, since his is the one that is offered to the public.
But if you offered it ahead of the game and/or is better, then at least you get to collect some residual regardless if people want to bypass the dev fee or not.
Not sure how much work that would be needed to do this, but the way I see it, for example;
Lets say 100 people use your service, 50 people bypass the dev fee if that's your concern.
I would rather have 50% of some free residual, then 0% of nothing.
That's just one perspective.