What has to be understood is that this thread demonstrates the bleeding edge of FPGA mining. Sure, 95% percent who are interested will not even try the hardware mod.

But what will happen when FPGA cards come out of the box, will mods needed for mining? And at a price point of $2500-$3000? GPU mining will be effectively dead for non-ETH scenarios.

The unknown aspect is how FPGA are able to adapt to potential resistance from coins/Devs who will fork. The Phi/Lux will be probably be the first case.

I hope they come to realize that the FPGA can provide them with asic resistance by increasing the NRE requirements for ASIC production. With the greater network hashrates higher tech levels of asic will not be nearly as profitable, if at all. It'll push the cost for a secret ASIC to 32, 28, 20nm or lower tech levels. All secret high level asics would be useless (and possibly may operate at a loss on networks secured by fpga). The fpga makes investment risk is higher, probability of mask failure higher, time to market longer, and greater probability returns will be lower than expected for the secret asic.

In addition, the rapid reconfiguration of the FPGA via coding allows the FPGA to follow forks if it's ever necessary (to avoid a 16nm asic for instance). In addition, we're more than happy to work with coin devs to create new algos that would be FPGA optimized making use of the unique features of the FPGA to full potential. We do have academics on staff who have already created algos (some of which are used today globally in banking, etc). The failure of most coin devs is that they don't understand hardware. They just keep adding layers of complexity and hoping for the best. We can provide that hardware expertise which they lack.

We could have continued operating in secret. But we've opened up, we've been very open with how many boards are shipping, when, etc. Our goal is to reduce costs to make FPGA even more desirable for the crypto markets. I have been working Xilinx very hard to get pricing down to GPU levels. To do this, it requires moving FPGA in GPU levels.

No, you did not opened it up. It's @whitefire990 that opened FGPA to others. You just identified a business opportunity after you realized that secret FGPA mining will not be as profitable as before once @whitefire990 releases the bitstream in market. That's what @whitefire990 wanted to do and in my opinion he succeeded.

No, I opened up once I realized that companies were going to try charging $6000 and $7000 for these fpga. Go through my post history. If you think I'm going to make any appreciable amount of money from this, you're wrong. What little we do make will be dumped back into development to provide the community the ability to make, compile and distribute their own bitstreams securely.

Edit: Our money is going to come from the devfee in the bitstreams we'll release. And, no one has to use ours. Whitefire's bitstreams will work on the boards too.

We are all in this for money. You should make money if you are adding value to the community. You are adding value by lowering the FGPA cost.  I am also buying from you. It is none of my concern how much money you are making. In my opinion, credit to open up FGPA mining to newbie miners or to the people who are late in mining should be given to @whitefire990. Also @whitefire990 saved crypto community from Bitmain, Baikal and other ASIC manufactures, who were usurping majority of the value generated by cryptocurrency mining.

This always confuses me. For coin decentralization the hardware type is irrelevant, you can help keep them decentralized by mining solo or on smaller pools.

This is awesome.  The fewer people that get involved, the better.  I hope the FPGA community stays small, so profits don't get diluted.
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Still, despite this information, hopefully people don't buy; the fewer people that get involved, the better.

These pictures only shows it is  working, but can not prove its mining speed and power consumption.
a screenshot of mining software and a public pool stats are needed.
I don‘t doubt the board mining , but  doubt his actual speed and profits.

Can anyone prove or at least give some evidence that this FPGA hash rate and power consumption is true?
I saw a lot of things at this topic but nothing that convinced me that all the things that OP said is real.