Just completed a HW purchase using this escrow, really good and easy to use!

Which coins specifically are against FPGAs? For example even XMR is not entirely against FPGA. MBC for example is working on a fork against ASIC right now but is welcoming FPGAs.

Why do you think CVP-13 would cannibalize VCU/BCU earnings? The price/performance ratio is almost the same (+/- 30%).

Was on that webpage anything other than now? They are closing 1 company and moving the activities under another company.
From the discord most of the BCUs got shipped, so I don't understand that sensence about refunds... Also there are another producers of boards with VU9P/13P FPGA chips, some already shipping, some shipping soon.
I am personally happy to have a VCU, although things are not going so fast as anticipated, but that is true for everything crypto related (incl. first BTC ASIC chips and 3rd party asic miners in 2013).

F1 is made of earlier generation of small FPGAs. Look at the power usage for example. And it is "closed source". You are dependent on the vendor to release new algos or to delete existing algos, you cannot run 3rd party bitstreams on F1. But yes, it is an alternative, which has its pros and cons.

Devfee is exactly 4%.

I am running it since Monday evening and was getting $16/day on my VCU. Seems using other pool makes $20/day for some reason. I switched pools yesterday, so will see in a few days if it's better.

Latest information on Discord is that DC1613A is not needed for BCU.

How do you define doorstepper? Something with long ROI, or something which cannot earn at least for its electricity?
VCUs electricity cost is still under 20% of earned amount for all the already released algos (and the more profitable algos are only going to come).

You can get "2)" for free, but there is some delay. So you either get "1)" now or wait 1-2 weeks for "2)".
"3)" is "2)" with fitter powerful fan.
"4)" is a water block. You can either have "1)" shipped now and water block later, which you will install yourself and void warranty, or wait until end of Oct and have water block installed at factory and shipped with card.

"2)" can run 350-400 W with good airflow. I don't think you can cool with air the same as with water, however the difference in water is not so huge as it is for VCU1525.

The whole survey is because they got the cards before the heatsinks, so you have option to wait or not to wait for them...
All this info is from the Discord.

So at 13 GH/s it would be approx. 120-130 Watt? How could you achieve so much better Hash/watt ratio than VCU1525 using VU9P FPGA even with un-optimized bitstream?
VCU running 13 GH/s 0x bitstream is taking 200 watts.

Bitmain uses some smaller Xilinx FPGA for their management boards for their ASIC miners. There is no evidence yet there would be directly making FPGA miners.
All design details of VCU1525 including BOM was public on Xilinx website until recently. So anybody could take the BOM list and try to buy all the stocks of some components.

Many people (including me) received their VCU1525 directly from Xilinx official distributors. As whitefire mentioned in the beginning, this card needs some modding, that's one of the reasons the group buy for modified BCU1525 started. So many people are already mining on these cards and using bitstreams from 2 distinct developers (whitefire/zetheron and digitalcruncher).

That more profitable bitstream should be available by 15.9. As whitefire mentioned, many changes in the coins happeneded in the last few months. He had to stop developments of some half-finished bitstreams due to either coins now having zero value or changing their mining algos. That also adds to the delays in bitstream publication.

Whitefire "advertised" (approximated) $20-$50 per day, but of course in the market conditions of that time (price, difficulty, algos). I guess he doesn't have a crystal ball to know how that all would be in 3 months.

As per all the information from Discord, the BCU won't be sold by Xilinx. It is based on XBB board (production version of VCU) which is not ready yet and when it will be it will have way bigger price than VCU/BCU. The only thing you can buy from Xilinx is VCU and XBB in the future.

What is the source of the BCUs you are trying to sell? You have a pre-order from the group buy and are re-selling?
Because there is no other way to obtain a BCU.
Also do you have your own implementation of Cryptonight Heavy bitstream? Because nobody announced one yet.

You mean no possibility to order VCU1525 from Xilinx partners anymore (with reasonable lead times)? I mean few boards, not 1000

Where are you checking the price / mining comparison for all the 0x tokens?

Hi,
I tried Tribus yesterday, it works fine with 1 thread of 600 MH/s. With 2 threads the miner started throttling as the temperature reached 85 degress celsius. 3 threads (1.8 GH/s) are possible, but I have to tune my cooling and lower VCCINT.

My card should arrive in 2 days, so I will test Keccak and report back hopefully this as time will permit.

They said that the next batch will be in 2019. No more batches this year. But you can still buy the original card from Xilinx if you are a company. However they seem to have longer lead times now...