Hi, How are you going, today.
Two years before, i have thought large-scale computing (unlikely clouding) for mining bitcoin. At that time, i imagined embeded units such as DSP and FPGA might be candidates. However, decision making was not done due to lack of time. Your current post make me exciting like then. Ah, ..., I am a mathemacian, as well as an engineer. I master in MATLAB, VHDL, C/C++, Python. I am very interested in crypto-currency, bitcoin. PoW (Proof of Work) is source of bitcoin, and it make me to be back a mathemacian. But I am not going to throw my engineering. So I may be most suitable to your project.