Glad you got a solution to your issue.
Since you mentioned running a Compac-F I take it you are running Kano's latest version of cgminer? If not link to it is in my sig.
I should add that Sidehack has a new Smart Hub that may good for your needs. Oh course Kano hangs out there as well since he did the driver for the Compac F.

Of course you can.

yawn. Has had zero effect on BTC. OP is just another FUDster spreading their shit around 

Mining hardware has no need of them as they are just making guesses at the required values to decrypt the hash.
Now encrypting data into a hash - that's another story and would be a valid use. Thing is, unless there are size and power constraints as in mobile applications, conventional TRNG circuits work fine for most encryption applications as both produce totally random results.

Yes you do get rewards. Most pools take at least a 1-day average hash rate to determine the % of pool work you do and have a minimum withdrawal limit so the time you DO spend mining means it just takes longer vs running 24x7 to reach the limit.

This is not even a rational question... YES.
As others have already said, the fact that people are being robbed by them has zero defense. They are the ones intentionally committing a crime and who when caught should have their heads put on a pike in the city square as a warning to other scammers. Period.

The fact that their victims for whatever reason fell for their scams is beside the point. The victims motivations is irrelevant. All that can be said about their involvement is that hopefully they learn from it and never make the same mistakes again...

Sigh, for one, try reading stickied posts like this one, they may answer your question right off the bat...
In this case mainly point-3.

I know for a fact that he has not been contacted by them as it is a certain fact that he would bring it up in his KanoPool Discord #imboredwhattodo channel. Thing is Kano has degrees in computer science and statistics - he would rip QBT a new asshole over what they are claiming.

That said - IF QBT succeeds in having their patent applications approved, even if they cannot actually make it work (to-date is impossible) then what they CAN lay claim to is becoming Prior Art is the concept of using AI or ML pattern analysis to speed up sha-256 decryption. End result is that when tech finally might be able to do it they could then say, 'Ehem, that was our Patented idea first and here is our Royalty Terms...'. In other words become a NPE Patent Troll. In the Patents world NPE stands for Non-Producing Entity meaning they do not actually make anything that uses their patented idea in any way but rather use their patent as a tool to force license/royalty payments from companies that can and do use it.

For a start, learn to read stickied posts like this one. They tend to have valuable information... In this case ref point-3.
In short, CPU's, FPGA's & GPU's are useless for mining Bitcoin. They *can* be used for mining various altcoins aka crapcoins but discussion of that belongs in the altcoin areas - not here.

Glad that -ck told them to piss off. FWIW -ck closed down his development of CGminer several years ago. If they ever reach out to the sole remaining active Primary developer of CGminer (Kano) he will not be so nice in his reply to them   Link to Kano's git is in my sig.

If they can't figure out the CGminer code then it just further proves they are most likely marketing scammers holding out the sparkly shiny promise of 'something revolutionary' based on the Majik buzzwords "AI Learning" to attract Investards willing to throw money at them and that they have no one on their 'team' that is even moderately skilled at programming. It is NOT that complex and each block of code is very well documented.

The folks behind Braiins figured it out when they did a clean rewrite of the cgminer code (using Rust) to make a more 'tweakable' 3rd party firmware that was not a hack of CGminer to use with Bitmain and other makes of miners. They were able to recreate the functionality of what CGminer does and created their own code structures to do the same things.

As for this closing line in QBT's pdf regarding using their ideas in the real word with real mining chips:
Um, first vh and more recently, Kano, did it for the Bitmain chips that Sidehack uses in his miners... Ja it took Sidehack a fair bit of time using a logic analyzer to map the bitstreams in & out of the chips so vh/Kano could write the driver coms code needed but again eminently doable if someone knows what they are doing.

You *are* using a disk imaging program and not just copying it to the card right?...

@OP
You really need to read the sticky at the top of this area... https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2415854.0 Mainly point-3
In short you CANNOT MINE BTC using CPU's. Period.

Looks fine. If you can get some A841's they are a bit better speed and power eff - just need a different Raspi because you cannot mix miners on 1 controller. Even at full speed the 841 only pulls ~1.3kw so a 1.5kw supply works fine.

So only 1 miner is connected and powered on? Obviously that combo of MM firmware and the OpenWrt work so as long as the other miners have the same MM version they should all work.

For what is going on we need to see the cgminer status GUI page like I posted https://imgur.com/jcTE6fR
That in itself will show the main status of all miners connected to the RiPi controller.

Avoid the A921 & 950. In Canaan's rush to be 1st-to-market with a 10nm chip they rather blew it. Running full speed for just over 20Ths they are very hot and pull just over 2kw, Normal mode is a bit cooler, ~1.9kw & ~18Ths. 2x A841's do better... That said, as I posted in that setting link the A9xx are just as tweakable as the A8's.

Regarding the firmware: If the miner FW and software versions are different the miner GUI will still work fine but the miners either do not show up on the LuCl cgminer status tab or if they do show they have zero stats. You can use the upgrade miner button (I think located on the System tab?) to apply a different firmware .mcs files you have downloaded and saved on your PC.

Use the openWrT software image from April 2018 and the April 2018 MM firmware (or the March 2018 ones if you want).
This is cgminer status from my 841's but the 821's should look the same https://imgur.com/jcTE6fR
In that pic, under Avalon Device status the MM column is miner firmware version. All miners attached to the controller MUST be running the same version.

There are: Canaan and the Whatsminers from MicroBt. For one thing both are generally far more reliable...

Did you follow that link to Hagg's setup & use guide?
Start at section 4)2. which where you start by burning a disk image to the micro SD card. It then takes you through al of the remaining config steps.
The links in his guide for software are shut down so use the files you get from the link DaveF gave.
As for you choice in More Options: Lose the auto tune for one. The miner does it already. For the rest of the commands, use the ones in the forum link I gave earlier where I gives many different settings to use.

Here is the link to HaggsFin 821 setup guide https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2937129.msg30172375#msg30172375

Unless you use WiFi (not recommended) I don't remember having to do anything directly with OpenWrT. I accessed everything through the LuCl GUI/

You use an imaging tool such as RasPi's own or Win32Diskimager to burn the img files onto the sd card. It creates the bootable disk image on the card and auto runs the LuCi interface to cgminer & everything else.

Its default address is 192.168.0.100 Initially, change is the IP address to what you want, either a static one or use DHCP and let your router figure it out. Save & apply. If you used DHCP look for what address the router assigned to it and go there. Enter your user info, save & apply again and you should be in business.