Quote from: senseless on June 09, 2018, 09:20:41 PM

Quote from: FFI2013 on June 09, 2018, 09:09:31 PM

I'm just asking how are fpga any different than asic they are expensive which excludes people from poorer countries getting them plus how is it going to save on power at first maybe but as the hashrate goes up so does difficulty so you need to add more miners also how are you going to get a company selling a 3000-4000 dollar piece of hardware to 700-800 and that's a high priced gpu.
Listen I'm not trying to bust balls here I'm all for power reduction it's the cost and we all know there's going to be greedy devs hiding in 10 or 15% Dev fees it was going on with zec, you look at things different because you have access to fpgas at a cost lower than most and know what your doing with them

an ASIC can only do one thing, what it was designed to do. A FPGA is like a GPU, it can do whatever you program it to do. It's even possible to program it in the same language used to program the GPU (OpenCL).

There will be competition in the space, we're providing a platform that will force developers to compete on performance and fee to stay relevant. It's not going to be a situation like with claymore where he (as I understand the rumours) LOST THE SOURCE CODE but still continues to collect massive fees for something he doesn't even update (ClaymoreXMR).

Yes, cost is still high. This is my focus right now. Dropping the cost of these devices. Our current offerings are just the first step in this process; considering that we've achieved 1/2 the retail price that others are selling them for, I think we did very well. But again, this is just the start.

Thank you I appreciate you taking the time to explain things I'm against asic because they are centralized with bitmain running the show with them having kill switches and backed by the Chinese government things can only go one way theirs, my biggest issue with fpgas is the pricing and hopefully things will work out there needs to be hardware specifically for mining that can mine different algos but are available for anyone