I agree with you, but some coin devs put the FPGAs in the same categeory as ASICs, for good or bad reasons depending mostly on a personnal point of vue.
I'm ok with ASICs and FPGAs as long as the game is fair, meaning companies develop and sell them without retaining them and mining with for months and throwing them on the market only when it's more profitable compared to mining. That's what all major ASIC maker do, they compete against their "customers".
That's the reason why I like the initiatives here, BCU1525, ACORN M2...They give a chance to the people, not only deep pockets companies or investors who don't give a crap about blockchain / crypto, those which would invest in any business as long as it's profitable.
Mining should be for the people by the people.
I'm ok with ASICs and FPGAs as long as the game is fair, meaning companies develop and sell them without retaining them and mining with for months and throwing them on the market only when it's more profitable compared to mining. That's what all major ASIC maker do, they compete against their "customers".
That's the reason why I like the initiatives here, BCU1525, ACORN M2...They give a chance to the people, not only deep pockets companies or investors who don't give a crap about blockchain / crypto, those which would invest in any business as long as it's profitable.
Mining should be for the people by the people.
Many of the posts in this thread illustrate why more companies mine the hardware before they sell it, require bulk orders, provide poor customer service, etc. I mean really what is the point of providing a product in a transparent manner at a reasonable price? SQRL is the the perfect example of a company building fpga miners internally that decided to throw a bone to everyone and sell the same hardware at a very small markup. What did that get them? A bunch of accusations about scams and fake products, and this was before they even took a cent from anyone! Fast forward to the first half of August and people are already blowing up support, asking pointless questions about a product that is not past its shipping deadline.
I mean the pre-orders said August and its not even halfway through the month yet. These questions would be more understandable if it were August 30! The stratum protocol works on every pool. I don't think I've seen a miner that does not work on nicehash.
Unfortunately, not true. Z9 mini does not work on NiceHash. Squirrels' support told me that at this point NiveHash stratum support is not included (some differences how NiceHash handles that)
I take that back. The A3 doesnt work on nicehash either. Let me rephrase that, I've never seen a software miner not work with nicehash
The code to implement (extranonce subscribe) is pretty easy to implement: https://www.nicehash.com/help/patches-for-extranoncesubscription