Friedcat of AM fame released the AM financial statement today and I noticed something interesting in his Project Timeline, specifically in Nov-Dec...
Modular, you say? What a brilliant idea!
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Financial Status
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blah blah blah
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August-September: Deploy/sell all hashpower arriving in July and early August.
September-November: Deploy/sell the hashpower ordered at early July.
November-December: Experimental products of 2nd-gen chips and modular large-scale deployment solutions.
Financial Status
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blah blah blah
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August-September: Deploy/sell all hashpower arriving in July and early August.
September-November: Deploy/sell the hashpower ordered at early July.
November-December: Experimental products of 2nd-gen chips and modular large-scale deployment solutions.
Modular, you say? What a brilliant idea!
now THAT... is good shit.
October/November Active Mining Deploys and Sells our 1st Gen 28nm 16 GH/s chip.
Modular Deployment for Active Mining's mining farm with up to 24.576 TH/s per 34U's of rack space. Now that is good stuff if I say so myself.
Hey, Ken. What do you make of this from Friedcat's financial statement?
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Hardware Franchising
This is a new business model option besides self-mining and hardware sales. We will rent the excessive hashing power to financial and technical capable people, accepting full deposits at the market price, shipping the devices and collecting a certain PPS rate based on the theoretical hashrate. The PPS rate, the dividing of cost coverage, as well as warranty/exit strategy are being discussed in detail and executed as small-scale experiments.
This model is similar to hardware sales in the aspect that we do not have in control on how the users make use of our devices, therefore has more decentralization in spirit. And like with self-mining, it aims at settings in scale, enjoying the reduction of NRE cost and operating cost overall, and reducing potential marketing/advertisement/customer service costs.
Hardware Franchising
This is a new business model option besides self-mining and hardware sales. We will rent the excessive hashing power to financial and technical capable people, accepting full deposits at the market price, shipping the devices and collecting a certain PPS rate based on the theoretical hashrate. The PPS rate, the dividing of cost coverage, as well as warranty/exit strategy are being discussed in detail and executed as small-scale experiments.
This model is similar to hardware sales in the aspect that we do not have in control on how the users make use of our devices, therefore has more decentralization in spirit. And like with self-mining, it aims at settings in scale, enjoying the reduction of NRE cost and operating cost overall, and reducing potential marketing/advertisement/customer service costs.
Any similarity to your "people's miner" concept that babefoot touched on?
