... or choosing to reinvest mined Bitcoins in hardware to generate more Bitcoins while supporting the network.
reinvest what with 300mh Mr Altruism?
Yeah, I'm dying to support a network and earn money to company which "owns" 50% of network, can't wait to do it..
I agree that the fact that they have 200 th coming in the near future is extremely disconcerting and that asicminer should basically just become an asic miner seller. As it stands, it seems like they basically have a network monopoly right now and are only choosing to keep hardware offline because having it online would cause a huge dip in BTC price. The fact still remains that they have too big a portion.
I don't mind that, they were first, they did a job, they make a killing, good for them... just spare me of altruistic moments and excuses, please, I'm not a kid for some time now. They are using their advances position and network of their shareholders to pump and sell their stuff at ultra inflated prices and there is zero altruistic stuff in it. It's money, money, money baby, nothing else at all.