Nice try !
I'm sure you still sell your's at 0.002 !
Just no way you want buy at 0.005 since you're in from the start...

I'd just like to add that even if this thing can only put out as many Kh/s as a GPU, costs the price of a GPU, uses less wattage compared to a GPU, and will just run on its own while doing all that, it'd be well worth it for me and for many others (I'm sure).

Still trying to squeeze a demo unit out of me huh? Just to be clear we are not done yet, but we are nearing completion. I am not giving out a bunch of details for now, partly due to competition and partly due to my knowledge of how the technical aspects being limited.

ASIC is the eventual way to go, FPGA paves the way by making an implementation consisting only of discrete logic units.

I've been a little dubious from the start (especially that they've chosen a 13 year old as one of the alpha testers), but laSeek seems dedicated and I'm interested to see what he comes up with.

Speaking on subject, I read somewhere scrypt is too complicated to be done in ASIC, therefore FPGA is the only way to go. Is it true?

Because otherwise (and forgive someone as ignorant in HW design as me), why not skip straight to ASIC?

To anyone passing by:
nothing to see here, move along.

In this regard, Litecoin specialized/custom hardware will not be Bitcoin: part deux.

scrypt is made -specifically- to make custom hardware (such as fpgas, and others) attacks much more costly/less beneficial than otherwise it would be without it. Unless they have discovered a vulnerability/flaw/subtle property no one else knows about, the MOST they are going to get is power savings.

Dont expect anywhere near the same kind of advantage that asic/fpga has over other means of mining as in bitcoin. fpgas and the other forms of custom hardware wont have the same volume savings as gpus, the same amount of engineering, nor nearly the same amount of r&d $ to back it up.

again, all they will get is possibly some power savings, and even this being due to the fact they dont have to deal with the power overhead of the rest of the components in a pc gives other miners.

until (and if) this comes out and we see what it's capable of (or they post actual proof of the benefits of their custom hardware) i'm gonna stand by this, and others have no reasons to do otherwise.

The title of this post is going to be very ironic in coming months.

I predict most the benefits of fgpas will simply be lower power consumption per coin.

I am curious what are you up to? Make a memory controller into the FPGA and pack a bunch of DRAM chips onto the board?