Topic: ASICMINER: Entering the Future of ASIC Mining by Inventing It - page 1026. (Read 3917058 times)

I'm curious as to when AM is going to withhold additional dividends for future growth.

I know they did this some in April (?), but I do not know how much.

I'm rather new to the AM game.

Ian

Over 9000.

Any predictions for tomorrow's dividend?

Reiterating my previous offer with better conditions :

I am swapping 3 Avalon units (1xbatch#1,2xbatch#2) with 500 ASICMINER-PT full shares. Anyone up for it ?
My batch 1 already paid out about 150 btc and i'm currently mining at about 0.215 Terahash/sec, getting 8.15 bitcoin daily.
According to my calculations and what i've gathered from other sources, these units should be able to mine at least 400/500 btc roughly before the difficulty goes through the roof.
Looking for constructive criticism, and offers if there are any. People interested can also PM me. Units would be available for local pickup in Europe or an escrow with a hero member of your choice.

Edit : offer reduced to 450 shares

Cheers
Delaria

Command, a campain and/or website is a one-person full time job at most, and we're speaking about a multi-million company now, not just three guys doing everything from A to Z in their garage! So try to put things in context.

Well, in my view, thats not a secondary thing.  I can argue some reasons:

1- The most important part of last dividends (if i am not wrong, 2/3) has been hardware selling income.  At this point, we can stat that ASICMINER is mainly a hardware selling enterprise, not a mining one.  However, havent got the best tools to make the sells.

2- Competitors are coming.  Now could be easy to sell hardware, but much harder in the future. Beeing the best seller could be as important as beeing the best miner or the best guy making chips.

3- Setting up a good sales channel is surely easier and faster than manage a ton of blades. 30 th = 3.000 blades? I can imagine how hard is deploy and manage 3000 blades. Now, lets sum 12+50+200 th.  What about mantain 10% of the network when the network scale orders of magnitude? datacenters, wires, deployment, cooling, electricity and all the issues...  

4- But in any case, what i proposed (only a first step) its the simplest and less time-spending solution: run an advertising campaign in the forum.  Almost for test the results.

ASICMINER is the best investment i have done in my lifetime. I have tell my friends about Friedcat, so im a big fan. I wish ASICMINER success, and i guess that success is related with having a good sales channel and having good sales and marketing tools

OK, I'm generally a patient guy, but any word from friedcat? Can any board members throw some crumbs to us plebs? Thx.

Ill help with any marketing initiative to help ASICMINER sell more product.
I have a pretty wide skill set so I'm sure I could fit in somewhere. Send a Pm TAT i think its a good idea.

Not to attack AM and the pricing strategy for the usb sticks but I think the item is mispriced.

BFL the company that has made all  buyers hate them  due to long delays is really shipping Jalapenos' the new piece of gear is offering 7Gh for about 3.2BTC and 5Gh for about 2.5BTC.

      these usb  sticks would be 6btc for 1gh of hash   that price is too high.  


1 simple item  5 sticks with a powered usb hub the 10 unit hub Should be what is offered.  with one upgrade to 10 sticks.  current price would be 10BTC for the 5 stick unit and 20 BTC for the 10 stick unit.

Just lower the price  to  6BTC for a five usb stick on a 10 hub  and 11BTC for a ten usb stick on a 10 hub they will fly out the door.  you get a 1.6Gh or a 3.2Gh hash machine fast and at a good price.

 Since these could be sold and shipped fast with almost no delay we could sell them out quickly.. are there not 10,000 sticks of which only a few thousand sold.  Selling a bigger unit helps with shipping cost since the amount paid is higher.

 I still maintain that f cat could sell direct from China on ebay.  we have lots of hong kong sellers on usa ebay.


Just a thought  hey I can buy hd7790's at half the price of the usb sticks I have spare slots and I still believe this high price selling of the usb sticks is wrong.  Now that BFL has more then 75 Jally's shipped at a far lower price .  What  if they move out  more  let us say  a few hundred  move out next week.  Then  the usb sticks will suffer more  at the current sales pricing.   People will think a bfl jally is 5gh that is  the same as 16 usb sticks.  the jally goes  for only 2.5btc the 16 sticks are 32 btc .  Now BFL has shipped a few hundred of them maybe I should buy BFL.

I would not be complaining but f cat had to drop the last buy from 300units  to 50 units  to get it to sell.

It satisfies the requirement only if any single one of those people would be able to put the business back up with new partners, i.e. he had all the keys, accesses, and know-how to do it.
Otherwise it's still 1.

I tend to agree taking whatever you can to make the sale is the right course, and PayPal is far less risky than credit cards.  These are physical products being shipped via trackable shippers, so no disputes would be lost.

+1 was going to reply something along those lines. Best way to get into bitcoins : buy miner for fiat then mine bitcoins

I kind of agree, but kind of disagree too.

Selling mining gear in traditional currencies might engage people who cannot get hold of BTC otherwise. Then again, selling for BTC grows the "bitcoin economy". In my opinion, one doesn't need to necessarily exclude the other, as long as risks are properly considered...

No, but this is a BTC business and it is in all of our best interests that they only sell for BTC.

So all the websites that accept credit cards are doomed and should immediately stop ? 

I wouldnt feel good with AM accepting credit card payments. Thats way too risky. Similar to getting paid with paypal. But there are other payment options that dont have this risk. Those could be used. But more important than this would be a shop. Something official where intereste buyers can inform shortly and then buying. BFL should be a good example how it could work.
But then again... friedcat and team most probably will work hard all day. Spending time on secondary things will most probably draw workpower from things that can raise the dividend even higher.

Web Developer - primarily frontend (JS/HTML/CSS) - with OCD . Pixel perfection or bust.

I'd be willing to help too.

I volunteer too.  I Have got website development skills and some other.  If Friedcat agree, im sure we cand do a good job

I already dabble