Read through this thread and i think it's great what you guys are trying to achieve, however you have to realize some/most of us will remain skeptical until we at least see these units in action, with actual real world numbers posted for everyone to see, hopefully those results/proof will come sooner than later.
The exact same FPGA cards are available in AWS, so it would be trivial to verify it all for one's self, but the end-to-end software stack to do so has not yet been made available.
And expecting people to buy rather expensive hardware without making available the software stack required for public peer review is... bold.
This is what i meant, the hardware is there and capable but at what numbers/hashrates, for that we need the software, hopefully it will soon be out for everyone to see cause as it stands, without the software to mine, these will just be expensive paperweights until the software is released, i do know there's other uses for the specific fpga in this thread but the paperweight comment is for this specific use, as in mining.
You realize there are lots of people mining with FPGAs that don't share it, right? If you don't understand how they work, and don't have the skills, then wait for these guys to make it available.
The VCU1525 was for non-mining reasons for a while, and the folks who have been making them run have been doing so for private entities for a while. They don't feel the need to get in chat rooms and brag about their hash rate. FPGA's have been mining for much longer than anyone will admit. Just wait, and when more cards are available in 2019, you can buy one then, and everyone will be using them.