Интересно, этот Ellerium поможет в случае нападения пришельцев на нашу планету?

@CNoteFan:
It's hardly ever possible. Most likely developers are sitting on PC doing cross-development for OrangePi.
After that they release image for flashing there only binaries residues. No even traces of source code.

Have any proof of that? Of course we can slip into speculation that since Baikal-T1 fabricated on TMSC, than there is a big chance that they ordered "something else" just some sort of collateral product. And this is exactly the ASICs we are talking of.

Do you think those Baikal miners not based on this silicon chip? 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baikal_CPU

May be it makes sense to rewrite whole bitcoin kernel using some modern language, like Ethereum did already?
Or favor C++14 and get rid of Boost library?