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[kramble]

Well it's march 12th and it seems like a dead end. I know Kramble updated his github in feb on it but it just seems to run in to all sort of problems, challenges.. Friend of mine is trying the same thing together with an FPGA specialist. They give it six months then is has to be up and running, or bust...

This project is nothing to do with me (except that it may have taken some input from my open source code).

And my project is pretty much dead in the water. Scrypt is just not economic in FPGA, and the forthcoming ASICs will only make that worse. So I've moved on (Blake is much more FPGA-friendly, and Keccak and Groestl also have some potential).

[The Koolio]

Sorry for the delays in feedback. Unfortunately in last few months we made the business decision not to go ahead as the potential risks were not evenly weighted with profits that could be made. We did however sell our IP to a foreign group who I believe are making the machines for their own farm. There is a potential for a public release but I would leave this to them. Sorry for not giving our feedback sooner, we only literally signed over to the buyers.

Currently I feel many of the companies are going to experience a lack of profit making, the only ones to succeed would be those who already have the production lines setup. Unlike Bitcoin (SHA256) miners the demand wont be as much, and not due to any other reasons but bad timing. If we werent experiencing downward pressure on prices Im pretty sure we'd see a big demand for scrypt miners, but fact is the only offerings are 5 figures plus which unfortunately price many people out (hobby enthusiast). If anyone has any other questions please feel free to PM myself.

Koolio