At these current BTC and crypto prices...and the FPGA card prices...
looks like mine (and perhaps) others view on all this is gonna get pushed out in
the future ...for more than a bit...
a couple questions
1) at $3.2k a card (damn, this looked more do'able a month or two ago) is
there any 'resale' market on these cards? What I mean is, the folk buying
these for industry ...likely need to buy 'new' for the warranty...or they'd
lose their job, kinda viewpoint
2) so as to the 'what comes first' do you mine with these FPGA cards on
the hope can do 'current' coins or do you do a combo of both current
coins that this FPGA card would make sense to mine and/or a specific FPGA coin?
3) What is the best guess of someone getting a working prototype up
mining ...whatever coins (above) as a public example?
thanks, just trying to catch up...but damn $3.2k a card is 'rough' if
there is no real 'resale' value to their industrial used nature (now).
(I'm a simple miner (or was looking iffy now) this makes my head hurt.
Searing
1) There is a resale market but it's much smaller. In addition, with the modifications to the device it may be difficult to sell at all. I'm not sure how to say this... There are other things I'd like to do and having the card may be worthwhile to you for other purposes in the future outside of crypto.
2) There's no algo that exists which would be faster on a gpu than a FPGA. The GPU is instruction set based and does have some features in silicon beyond those instruction sets. The problem coin devs have is there's really no way to make an algo that is faster on gpu than fpga. The FPGA are specially suited for this purpose and while there are some limitations with the current generation of cards; in the future, it's not going to be a problem.
3) Ya i've posted me mining on the VCU118 development board.
https://imgur.com/a/tmebe6W