What we have now is that in many cases, the coin dev teams work with one or more of the prominent GPU mining software devs to get the new algorithms into the GPU miners so that there is new software available on the day of the fork. In some cases this involvement begins weeks prior to the fork to allow the GPU miner devs to optimize their code.

FPGAs will be here for the foreseeable future. They may be visible, like the VCU/BCU1525, Acorns, and others, or invisible like the FPGA miners developed with private money and not publicly available. For the publicly available FPGA miners, I think that coin devs will probably start to collaborate with the FPGA bitstream devs in much the same way as the con devs now work with the GPU miner devs.



Honestly, at the risk of sounding like a SQRL apologist, I think they were overwhelmed with the demand and the complexity of multiple payment options and ordering paths, and it's "all hands on deck" to get the orders and payments sorted out and processed. As Phil and other's have experienced and documented in this thread, there have been some issues. I guess I was one of the lucky ones in that I ordered early enough when SQRL was accepting BTC or ETH for payment, and I experienced no problems with my order processing.

Having been around for the dot com boom, this reminds me a lot of the then "new" internet retail companies opening for business and being so overwhelmed that their web sites crashed for days/weeks and they couldn't keep up with orders when the web sites were working. Some survived, but most perished. I think SQRL is going to make it, but I'm sure that the learned a lot this time.