who will reprogram this if a new algo is born?
How about the DEVFee?
The devfee depends on the dev, as gpuhoarder eluded to in the previous post... There will likely be many devs coming out with bitstreams and software. Whitefire was just the first to announce. We are considering developing a platform that would allow any dev to develop firmwares for the boards and provide the development environment. The devfee collected on our software would depend on what devfee the dev wanted to set.
I'm also doing this now. And any algo on which they want to earn I'll release on github for free.