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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Acorn M.2 FPGA based GPU Accelerator
by
WillJ7
on 16/12/2018, 20:49:11 UTC
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Yes actually I’d love to see it happen. (Not for me of course)  More people are getting burnt the longer this drags on.  What they didn’t know was this is par for the course in crypto.  At some point this isn’t alpha tech.  FPGA been out many years.  As with the software to mine on these Algos.  Many things went wrong here.  Unproven claims were made and advertised.  Do I think they need sued. No. I honestly think this was well intentioned but to those of us that have seen this time and time again well....   I guess it’s my bad for projecting onto them what I thought they should have known.  Next time instead of assuming they have been in this scene for a minute we all should have asked the proper questions. Like Phil said mfurman asked the hard questions.  That should have set of many red flags for you folks.  A hard lesson learned seems to stick with one the best.  “Fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me”!

BR

I agree about the 'drama queen' aspect of Crypto.  But anyone who has ever done tech support of any kind, and done it well, knows about what a vast time suck technology can present.  

However, I fall on the side of "they are well-intentioned," this isn't a scam, but yes it is late.  If you want to raise constructive red flags in the future, I think that is a good thing to do.  But with so many real scams out there, why go after a project where you suspect the people behind it are well-intentioned?  I don't quite follow that.  Of all the targets you could pick, why this particular one?

He has spoken about other ones not this just this one.

Yes, if I recall he spoke out against the Zcash group for saying "fork!" and then "hey, we won't fork."  I understood that better.  I have gotten quite worked up about certain scams.  This doesn't seem to fit in that bucket. That's what I am wondering about.

Edit:  If you buy what d57heinz is saying, we are all wasting our time (and our money).  Whether you are looking at other ASIC hardware, or other FPGA solutions that are shipping, ALL of it will come to nothing-I think that is his point.  But I notice that people are very much exploring other options.  Not much excitement about any GPU that I can find, but all kinds of threads about new hardware.  If it will all prove to be an enormous waste, then I can think of better targets than this one.  So I am left head-scratching.  That's all.