Quote from: colomine on August 04, 2018, 08:50:18 PM

Quote from: melpheos on August 04, 2018, 06:08:46 PM

200 day ROI is still very good IMHO.
Also people should realize the low power usage for this return. My 24*1070ti eats (and heats) up 2600w/h
Two BCU will make more money than my whole setup for around 300w...

@melpheos,
As one of those people ) who should understand ), I would disagree with you. I understand that anybody paying $0.12+/kwh will finally see some gains and FPGAs are a big hope. That is not in question. I myself because of my personal situation almost ended up ordering FPGAs to an EU address. But later decided not to. And of course, a GPU mining in EU at $0,18+ per kwh is not an option and FPGA is a dealbreaker here.
But sometimes there are better options available. It all depends on your electricity costs and the hardware prices to make profits even on GPU mining. For my current location, if I buy GPUs at todays dropped prices or second hand, it will result in the same or better ROI as the current ROI on 0xBTC we are seeing on FPGAs. Which is around 10 USD per FPGA card. But GPUs have better warranty and are explored well enough to pedict what to expect whereas the FPGAs have some drawbacks and there is more uncertainty there.
In this situation, ofcourse I have hopes for a better ROI than with GPUs. I hope you could follow my thought.

Quote from: UOTT2 on August 04, 2018, 08:19:25 PM

I agree venture capitalists look for a ROI under 3 years.

@UOTT2
That is why even the GPU mining on a larger scale is still profitable, provided the prices are right. And this is exactly why it is a concern when such an expensive piece of hardware as BCU1525 has a only 90 days warranty. It is a bigger risk than a regular GPU when used for mining. One of the thoughts that crossed my mind was that it is safer to mine on GPUs because of that.
@whitefire990,
Yes of course, we are all having big hopes for FPGAs, and clearly the drop in profitability has to do with altcoins course drop. 0xBTC alone went from $0,82 2 days ago to #0,60 something.
I look forward to those new bitstreams you entioned on discord to be released in September. I only wish the warranty was comparable to that of GPUs. I would do a immersion cooling if not the warranty. But not I do not want to risk hosting on my own befor having tested it with mineority

I hear you and have absolutely no issue with your argumentation