Currently there are some farms specifically mining DNR masternodes to hodl. Taking a guess here, but people using FPGA's might not be dumping which could over time increase price since they might be more hashrate than the smaller miners constantly dumping. Obviously excited to hear about public FPGA's in general.

If these turn out to be real I wouldn't mind being able to bump up the devfee as a huge thanks for doing this.

Any update as to the group buy?

he just need to reprogram his fpga, there isn't any asic or fpga protection all illusion, there is just profitable enough or not profitable enough to make an asic/fpga for it

Interesting, I am grabbing some popcorn...

The group asked for my opinion and I agree. PHI2 appears to be more of the same ASIC resistance line of thinking based on some misconceptions about what makes things hard for hardware.

The fact that you lumped ASIC and FPGA resistance in one line is more telling than anything else.

To be less skeptical, show me your white paper documenting the PHI2 algorithm and decisions that were made and cryptoanalysis that was done on it to be FPGA resistant?

It also appear you’ve released the GPL miner binary, so I respectfully request the source.

To be clear I am not against coins that decide from the get-go to be ASIC resistant, even those that decide to be FPGA resistant. I’m perfectly willing to design hardware to take advantage of a coins failure to actually be resistant though. The challenge alone is worth it, there are many ways to solve a problem.

What I do think is important is to hold those decisions to scrutiny. Otherwise what you have is smaller coins waving the “hey we are asic resistant!” flag as a marketing tool, hoping to be the next big GPU coin regardless of the validity of the claims.

They need to stand up to public review and get experts in the various disciplines to chime in on their decisions. From what I can tell PHI2 seems to have been developed in secret - and nothing is published on the algorithm itself, which makes me suspect. It also makes it clear that it hasn’t been broadly reviewed and given a chance to  stand on its own merits.

Does anyone know where else I can get the VCU1525 kit from shipped to the US?  Initially I tried contacting avnet to order a board or two to play with but am getting nowhere.  I signed their export agreement and every couple of days ask what I need to do to order the hardware but never get an answer to the question.  Yesterday I decided to just grab one from Digikey as I have ordered a lot of parts from them in the past but as someone else mentioned they disappeared from there too.  

Also thank you whitefire990 for this post, I had been interested in playing with FPGAs for a long time and this was the kick I needed.  

I work with Avnet all the time, sadly this is normal. Hardware the backside  doesn’t move at consumer pace, very slowly. Also lead times are a few weeks now.

Most of the people I have spoken with are Anti-ASIC but pro general purpose acceleration hardware (such as FPGAs). There is certainly a group that has a vested interest in keeping their GPU farms running or using existing hardware that users have.

Soon we should have FPGA boards in the realm of GPU costs ($200-600) that “everyone” could buy. That may sway opinions, but I imagine some will still cling to their GPU centric goals. I can’t fault a group for making a decision and sticking to it.

hmm , something i dont get it
The title is DIY FPGA .. bit it seems i can do and vcu1525 or vup9 by myself right ?

Anyway, i read all the topic and i'm still very confused, and i'm not the one.

About one thing on the OP first post :
why show picture of the rig , ( 8 vcu1525 right ? ) and not show some action you know ,stuff running on algo via cmd or just nicehash to show us how profitable is

OP¨said that he's working on config files for FPGA XUPP3R-VU9P , that released on 30 may
And after he said : If you already have a VCU1525 (a real one, not AWS instance), then please message me ASAP to receive your pre-release software.

So is the FPGA XUPP3R-VU9P and the VCU1525 is the same thing or what ??

Plz, can you take into consideration that some ppl (including me) are not english and are not pro, so can i ask you all,  for all of us,  to be a little bit clear.

Things like , if i 'll buy an vcu1525, which algo can we mine as soon as we receive it ?

And you said that The Avnet KU040 is $975 can mine at 3GH/s

hmmm, 1000Mh/s = 1GH/s right ?

its equal to 3.5 1070ti , but how many Watt consume the KU040 ?