Quote from: s1gs3gv on May 11, 2018, 07:19:43 PM

The way I read this thread is that there are some credible devs looking for a business model that makes their work sustainable and profitable, more profitable than simply mining with their own secret sauce on their own expensive hardware.

There is the 'mining with dev fee' model and the hardware provider model. Both models require popular acceptance and adoption of fpga mining to work. Early adopters take a lot of risk because of the high cost of getting started with fpga mining equipment and missing proof of acceptable ROI.

pollo e huevos ?

It'd be sweet if we had a coin whose proof of work algorithm was fpga and gpu friendly but asic resistant !

I have a model of the dev fee. It is prepaid, nodelocked, timelimited and unavoidable, it works as online or offline activation key.
Although I am skeptical about the wide distribution of this solution without a sufficiently large number of algorithms for all of you.

The "Asic resistant" algorithm probably should involve
- the Terabyte disk as a primary storage of some "DAG" file,,
- the PCI Express NVM drive as a secondary storage of some "DAG" file (like cache),
- the full bandwith of PCI Express x8/x16 slot,
- the PCI Express GPU or FPGA.

This setup may be also usable to perform some real life tasks.