That's a goal in the point of raising Decred value or an end for the most of cryptocurrency's community participants? You think investing to one R9 380X for mining Decreds is worth it at this point? I have an GTX 660 now and I was planning to changed it for an AMD 400 Series graphic card which will might have about double power efficiency. But till AMD 400 series I am afraid it will be late for Decred GPU mining.
Some self-proclaimed owner of 130 FPGA boards claimed so, stating no other miners besides himself and a few others would have a chance.
So what's the point of starting mining Decreds with GPUs? Better invest in buying some Decreds when Decreds will become exchangeable?
It's a system whereby part of the supply is generated by simply holding Decred, limiting the amount of power PoW has by potentially voting against PoW blocks.
Why do you think the people who mined those Decred will sell them below "production cost"? If you define "better" as "more convenient" it will certainly be "better" to wait until Decred will hit the exchanges. It won't be cheaper however, unless something bad happens.
Yes but demand and exchange of Decreds should came at some point anyway and will be a good thing for everyone involved with it.
Personally I think it will be worth it to mine at least for a few weeks to months or until fpgas get running.
I would not get worried about this information. 130 of these FPGA boards is, when mining Blake256 with 8 rounds, equivalent to roughly 130/4 = 28 AMD Radeon R9 295X2 GPUs. From http://blakecoin.org/about-blakecoin/ we have 6.4GH/s – 6.9GH/s on a AMD Radeon R9 295X2 1.6GH/s on a ZTEX USB-FPGA 1.15y Quad Spartan-6 LX150 Development Board