What investors? I don't recall asking for investors at all. I'm offering to share what I learn as I do this, period.
If the information is of no value to you, then don't stress you're probably not the target audience.
If it's something that piques your interest, pitch in.
Yes actually I'm fairly certain no one else is working on this and no one has a significant head start.
I'm confident, because I've read what people are doing. This is different, if you don't understand from my description how it's different then please re-read mine vs theirs.
I've also talked to the people who are working on FPGAs for litecoin they say it's intriguing but obviously they're targeting different hardware so this clearly wouldn't work for them.
Point of fact at today prices, dollar for dollar you will get more hashing power with theirs. That will probably be the case for a year or two.
This isn't about that, it's about a shortcut in scrypt that can be implemented in next gen FPGAs and which eliminates the memory bus problem.
I'm saying I want to explore that particular shortcut, I don't have the resources to do the exploration, so if you want to chip in I'll let you know what I find.
Otherwise I will do it whenever I can.
Typo in the name of a mfr, sorry for that. I'm tired it's 1:30 AM. As long you understood who i meant, but just to clear up confusion
http://www.xilinx.com/ good company, but doesn't make what I'm working on here.
You're not wrong, but you're assuming that the FPGA & devboard will stay the same price forever.
My experience has been that these things go down and do so rather rapidly.
Also it's not just the FPGA, a significant portion of that cost is in the board.
There is a bunch of stuff on the board that this project doesn't need, but it's on there anyways because it's a devboard.
When completed you would have all of the knowledge that I have attained in this endeavor.
I'm only asking for donations because I'd like to move on this more quickly than my personal budget will allow.
I am currently in a downtime situation where I have a couple months to throw full-time into this.