Pine64 was a Useless Project

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I'm reading this thread with much interest because I've been looking for a SBC that is more powerful than a RPi for a mesh parallel computing project. 

Pine64's low energy specification and price make it a candidate.  Another contender is the UP board, and of course RPi3+  If I say it is "crypto mining" I hope I don't alienate too many community members!  For protoyping I need 10 or 20 devices.  I am planning to take this to Kickstarter: either as a share-equity issue, or a very modest reward-based proposal with an ambitious stretch target.

Given the overwhelming success of Pine's original KickStarter campaign and the "we are not software developers" response to the many issues on this forum, I have the following questions:

(a) Would any (disatisfied) non-user OWNERS of existing Pine64 hardware like to donate their kit to such a project?
(b) Is there any appetite for collaboration or sponsorship from the owners?  Who are they?  Who do I need to speak to?
© What interest or experience of Mesh, CUDA and computationally intensive parallel processing exists in the Pine community? 
(d) Does anyone have any appetite for a collaborative project that will involve a lot of "configuration fixes"?

Or is it a shambles and best left alone?  I'd really appreciate some feedback on this.

Did you ever make any headway on this? I'm not sure how useful a cluster of PINE64 devices would be for crypto mining (as opposed to a more power hungry processor/GPU type setup), but I'd love to hear how this turned out.