This does not matter. And even better because of FPGA can be reprogramed. And it looks to be truth as they had ability reprograming baikal to multialgo.
They could not know, everything could heppen, look at the DAO. Anyway if they want increase their selling they should suggest different payment options, convenient for customer. Afterwords they can exchange payments to any currency.
Intresting thing. On http://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency I see, now it's possible to earn about $2.5 a day with 150MH/s. And on aliexpress the price of Baikal falls $10 avery day. Now it is $868, yesterdey it was $879 an so on. So, much more profitable is not to buy Baikal but wait and "earn"...