Hello everyone, first let me introduce myself. My name is Richard and I will be assisting the team with physically running the mining aspect of APX. Ace has asked me to give you an update on the mining operations side. For those of you that are unaware, I own the Misty Mountain Mining farm that APX will be purchasing a small stake in initially. To address some concerns about mining ROI that I have seen, I can confirm that I actually achieved this goal last year mining Ethereum. Mining Zcash and Zclassic since their respective launches has also bought me double ROI and everything in between has been bunce. In addition, we expect to ROI within such a fast time (3 months) because of the good deals we have managed to negotiate for the equipment and our strategic mining selection together with the expertise of myself, Ace and notsofast. To conclude, whilst the goal is lofty it is more than achievable and we like a challenge.
However, there is a bigger model here than focusing on just ROI and drip feed future income alone. In the current system within Crypto and as we see in bitcoin, miners and users do not work in the best interests of one another but they share the usage of the same network. Miners can hold the network to ransom and the users end up counter attacking and it generally ends up being not healthy or beneficial to the system. We need to look no further than Bitmain and Core/Charlie Lee for BTC and LTC respectively.
Now what about another system, whereby the miners work for the users. More specifically, the users 'own' the miners and the miners work to provide new minted cryptographic assets that will be paid back to the users (APX holders).
For example, Misty Mountain offers a smart contract whereby an APX owner and only an APX owner can rent hash in BTC to mine a coin like Zcash for a set period e.g: 24 hours. For this, an APX holder would pay an amount of 0.095 BTC into the smart contract and receive 0.10 BTC worth of Zcash after the 24 hour period (effectively a 5% discount).
The miner is partially owned by the APX, he doesn't mind taking a 5% hit on his margins, especially if the machines have already paid off the initial investment. He also has the guarantee that his fixed costs for those 24 hours are going to be paid by the APX holder which mitigates his risk significantly. APX holders then get a 5% bump on their mining proceeds for the day which will effectively create a yield which would only come from owning APX tokens.
This is a new principle that is not seen elsewhere in Crypto (even holding physical gold comes at the cost of storage and zero yield) and the system only works if the miners and the coin are run by the same group of people. Rather than minting new coins like a Proof of Stake system and creating market sell pressure, effectively the value will come from other coins. A variant of a Robin Hood inspired system, take from them and give to us. Combine this with a deflationary model and you have an asset whereby the supply decreases and you also have the ability to attain a yield through discounted mining smart contracts.
The journey ahead will not be easy, there will be setbacks and trying times but we intend to weather the storm. Our first goal is to confirm that our ROI estimates are indeed realistic and this will serve as a testing period. Pending successful results we will scale the mining operation accordingly by increasing the hashing power proportional to the number to APX users before we expand the offering. This theory is not a done deal, we have hurdles to jump over first but if all goes well this is the big vision for the mining operation side of APX.
Today I am unpacking and assembling a 5 x RX 470 mining rig as a test machine to run performance and energy consumption numbers on multiple coins. Next week I will post my results and a few pictures too as we near the ICO launch date for APX. Questions are welcome and I suggest joining the APX telegram where you can chat to the team directly.
- Richard
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