They took in 15 million from ''batch 1'', and still nobody has a working FPGA. They said I would get my refund this week, and LIED.
Taking £15M in interest free loan and investing it in something with a reasonable yield sounds like a pretty good business model.
#5) The lyra2z bitstream we've developed will be released when boards are shipped. We're actively mining on our (ONE) prototype / development unit.
But these bitstreams could be used for testing by everyone using AWS as 1525 FPGAs are available there. It may not be profitable, and it may get people banned, but it would prove the concept definitively.
If these are ready, why have they not been made available?