Its also worth mentioning about the altcoins, that due to their currently low worth, it would be a poor investment for a company to fund the developement of an FPGA or an ASIC to mine them.

Should they do so anyway, they would end up as the only ones with ALOT of coins, flooding the market and decreasing their overall value anyway. Until the coin is more widely adopted it would be detrimental for someone to design specialised hardware to mine it, as the success of cryptocurrency relies on the community behind it.

As for LTC in particular, scrypt was designed to be intensive on the in-processor memory. FPGA's are not cheap anyway, and afaik FPGA's wont have enough memory on board to accommodate a processor designed for scrypt.

Having said this - i'm not completely familiar with this type of hardware, so feel free to speak up if i'm talking out my arse

posty post!

new to mining - LTC ofc. no point attempting BTC without a farm or FPGA's these days...

lets see where this takes me!