Any experience with FPGA miner?

[Ruso21]

FPGA miner was released a couple of years already and seems not a lot of people are interested on it.
Someone who owns it can share some experience?

I was keeping an eye on Hashaltcoin Blackminer and only can see F1 series, how about F2?

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[Commie]

Please read the pinned message at top of this subsection mainly point-3.
Since 2014, attempting to mine BTC with anything other than an ASIC-based miner is beyond pointless.

Mind you, this is an altcoin section, why are you talking about BTC mining?

[Vann]

Similar to ASIC's, the problem with FPGA's is they are of limited use on memory hard algorithm's. I remember back in 2018 there was talk on developing FPGA's for accelerating GPU mining, but I don't think they have produced a working unit as of yet.


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4391318.0

[NotFuzzyWarm]

Please read the pinned message at top of this subsection mainly point-3.
Since 2014, attempting to mine BTC with anything other than an ASIC-based miner is beyond pointless.

Mind you, this is an altcoin section, why are you talking about BTC mining?

Because it was originally posted in the BTC-only area which is where I posted from. 
It was moved here after my reply there... so, I've deleted that now unneeded post.
Cheers!

[Ruso21]

Similar to ASIC's, the problem with FPGA's is they are of limited use on memory hard algorithm's. I remember back in 2018 there was talk on developing FPGA's for accelerating GPU mining, but I don't think they have produced a working unit as of yet.


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4391318.0

Yea big failure with Squirrel, I was waiting for that and glad that I didn't purchase.
Hashaltcoin seems to be good for FPGA miners but with shit coins. I can see what you mean with the memory because of some coins that are little more famous but can't do much.

[ZaebaloRegitsa4]

There are two ingredients to success:
1. Coin algorithm. How compatible is it with FPGA.
2. Qualification of the programmer.
Very often, stupid programmers create an aura of impossibility of any process. Then a skilled programmer destroys that aura in a day. But a skilled FPGA programmer is expensive and usually does not deal with crypto 
FPGAs are expensive and not produced in large quantities. Lots of export restrictions here too. This all complicates the development of a commercially viable device.