Quote from: FFI2013 on December 11, 2018, 07:11:34 PM

And here's the crazy part they are just getting delivered and now the coin devs are doing what they can to make sure fpga's and asic's dont mine on their chains so the fpga's are going to be fighting with asic for profits

It's fair to say there will be more profitability challenges for FPGAs as coin developers stand up for their values. However, I wouldn't say FPGAs will fight with ASICs for profits. The two are simply in different spheres of influence.

I think what will happen is that the FPGA developments will drive a further evolution of various coin projects. There will be coin projects that adapt and overcome according to anti-FPGA/ASIC ideology and there will be coins that fail to adapt despite having the same ideology. This will mean people will see which coin projects hold true to their word which could also affect future coin performance. Or... the coin may perform well despite caving in to FPGA mining interests.

Meanwhile, there could be even newer coin projects who continue to use algorithms that are known to be mined by FPGAs. FPGAs represent a legitimate hashing capability which also equates to security and development of various coin networks. We see this all the time with coins releasing on one ASIC/FGPA minable coin or another.

It's all good in my opinion. CPU, GPU, FPGA, ASIC... doesn't matter. Some people will be satisfied with one or the other. Some satisfied with all. Some will laugh at other people for their choices. But if a blockchain is successful... I mean... Who cares what mining tech was used? I don't.