Bitmain is going public and will control every Algo soon. Most cryptos are deciding that forking isn't worth it, [ETH, ZEN, etc.] Monero seems to be the only major project dodging ASICs. So does 6k justify the ability to mine a fork? I'm not a huge Bitmain fan, but let's face it, they have the market cornered and have the ability to undercut competition and install the latest chips. What happens when the VU13P chip becomes perhaps overtaken by the Stratix 10 next year? Will ONE 6k FPGA ever give customers their ROI? In addition, ASICs are plug-and-play, has anyone read through the PDF on the downloads page to get these FPGA's up and running???
I doubt Bitmain will go for small market-cap algorithms (coins) like on Neoscrypt or Lyra2z. Only when they become big like Decred.
But thats the catch also, FPGAs will be fine until the coins are small, so low returns overall, as they become bigger, they will attract ASICs.
Lyra2 ASIC...