Quote from: huntingthesnark on September 30, 2018, 09:50:25 AM

Quote from: whitefire990 on September 30, 2018, 06:13:41 AM

Quote from: COINKING7 on September 30, 2018, 03:24:42 AM

Quote from: whitefire990 on September 30, 2018, 02:26:20 AM

Monero is irrelevant to FPGA's. I have never considered it a viable option and I am not doing any development on it or any of its variants. Notice that I didn't even list it in my original April 30 post. There are enough algorithms (without Monero or any cryptonight variant) to support 25000 FPGA's now, and at least one top-40 coin can make >$30/day with a VCU1525/BCU1525. However, unlike April 30th, I will no longer post information about any 'good' coins until the algorithms are actually ready for download. I don't expect this type of information to cause anyone to buy an FPGA, but I will say those people who took the risk will be VERY HAPPY THEY DID. By the time the super profitable algorithms are released, it will be too late for the naysayers to acquire hardware, as the hardware will all be owned by the early adopters.

The same goes for people who bought Bittware CVP-13's in the group order. A risky choice, but they will be very happy they took the risk.

If you consider that a BCU1525 can hash certain ASIC algorithms like Skein at almost 3 times the rate of a Baikal X/X10, and also do very well on things like Bytom and the equihash variants, there are tons of future possibilities.

Just to be realistic, I am sure you are brilliant but Bitmain can crush anything you are doing. Especially with with continued delays. They have billions of funds and 100's of talented coders/programmers.

In addition, you are saying no hardware will be available after these batches? That just gives Bitmain another chance to leapfrog you.

Each delay gives Bitmain a chance to create their own plug and play hardware, and on each delay, mining difficulty will rise and profits will fall. So any numbers being put out know are irrelevant, especially when 5,000 units hit the market.

You obviously haven't been reading financial news. Bitmain is almost bankrupt. Their supposed IPO is now considered an exit scam. Their mining machines sell for basically nothing, except for the Z9 series. They are bleeding cash and lost billions by converting their money into Bitcoin Cash which then crashed. Innosilicon has a better chance to survive.

Amen to that. Also BM is in a dangerous position because it is the crypto market leader - going after small cap coins with asics just isn't going to pay the increasingly hefty bills. Meanwhile the really big guys (Samsung for example) could annihilate BM from a technical and purchasing firepower point of view. Interesting times.

They already lost $500 million on chip design. Which apparently is part and parcel for chip design process, but still. They won't be going after any small coin/algo.