All knowledge in the discord is open source. We should not have issues with scammers. Seeing everything is free. None of the mining projects associated with the discord or the open source Bitcoin hardware initiative sell anything. They give away all knowledge gained. All their time  and energy is spent from what I have gathered. For personal pleasure and to enrich the Bitcoin community with open source knowledge. Something that has been void in the Bitcoin mining hardware development community for far to long.  Most mining hardware companies, go to great lengths to keep their information closed source.

These developers evolved in these emerging open source Bitcoin mining hardware projects are truly spectacular. They are selfless and have the original  vision of Bitcoin “open source” close to the chest. Nothing to scam when everything is FREE. We will however watch closely.

What is really awesome is they are actually trying to make it even easier for people to get with PCB manufactures and order the boards themselves “tutorials”. A hug daunting task for the average person is to actually order these prototype boards. A goal is to make tutorials for anyone with 0 hardware knowledge to order these boards and slap on an ASIC chip. Done and Done.

Thinking many people who have zero hardware development skill. Can actually gain first time hardware knowledge by the love of mining Bitcoin and  through the knowledge provided by these open source hardware projects. Really fun concept of people learning Bitcoin through building their own miner.

At the same time Mining hardware companies will still thrive. People will always want boxed, plug and play miners. For people wanting a more hands on deeper understanding of  Bitcoin and the hardware that mines it. They have options like Bitaxe and Voodoo. To name a few. Sorry for the long reply. Was able to get out all my thoughts out via your reply. Thank you.