ASICMINER: Entering the Future of ASIC Mining by Inventing It - page 1232.

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Quote from: wisard on March 13, 2013, 01:35:59 PM

There are 2 pass throughs that have been setup where you can buy ASICMiner shares.

https://bitfunder.com/asset/G.ASICMINER-PT
https://btct.co/security/ASICMINER-PT

Thats not what i search and i cant buy asicminer shares there, only shares that pass through asicminer. And that means i dont own the asicminer shares. When the issuer decides to run i cant do anything against and dont have anything. That would only mean another layer of insecureness between.
I want to buy real asicminer shares only.

Then I suggest reverse auction https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=73.0 or use the unified orderbook. There isn't anything else before official exchange.

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There are 2 pass throughs that have been setup where you can buy ASICMiner shares.

https://bitfunder.com/asset/G.ASICMINER-PT
https://btct.co/security/ASICMINER-PT

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The next batch will come at the end of this month? And what will be the timeframe to bring them online, now as you made contracts with workshops and so on? Any estimation?
I only wonder how it will be handled that asicminer lacks competition. I mean if really 62TH will be online soon than we will have 200% of the network hashingrate like it is now. Or 66.6% when its online. Competition should start to move then.

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Quote from: puck2 on March 13, 2013, 12:01:53 PM

Let's say for the sake of argument that ASICMINER hashrate remains constant... what would expected dividends be once "the first clause of ASICMINER's investor protection" is fulfilled?

As I understand; 200,000 IPO shares, 200,000 Private shares. Initial payback period is until each IPO share (1/200,000) obtains 0.1 BTC. So current payback is 1/200,000 * (Coins mined - Expenses). After payback will be 1/400,000 * (Coins mined - Expenses). So about half of what is being obtained now. Please correct me if I am wrong.

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While we're at it, what would expected dividend be (assuming constant difficulty), upon arrivval of additional 50TH after "the first clause of ASICMINER's investor protection" is fulfilled?

Current repayment speed = 6 TH/s
Future additional speed = 50(56?) Th/s
Difficulty change/time period = unknown
time periods until "fully" running = unkown

Future dividend repayments would be estimated by: (1/2) * (current dividend) * (50/6) * (dy/dx)

Or some such...

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Quote from: friedcat on March 13, 2013, 10:18:43 AM

The ~50TH/s batch.

Thanks, friedcat and friends, keep up the great work!

What stage is the 50TH/s batch at right now?

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Quote from: Mausini on March 13, 2013, 04:45:21 AM

Quote from: mrb on March 12, 2013, 09:30:33 PM

Yes I do take it into account: my point is that investing 0.6 BTC in Bitcoin may be more profitable than investing 0.6 BTC in ASICMINER. Because if BTC appreciates to $1000, then at the end of the day 0.6 BTC will be worth $600, whereas your ASICMINER share will be worth $250 (assuming my hypothetical example where the share is worth close to nothing after having returned only 0.25 BTC in dividends).

So, in your investment decisions, you need to compare them against holding BTC. If an investment does worse than merely holding BTC, then it is not an optimal investment.

That's just plain wrong for ASICMINER shares. Appreciation of BTC only has a positive effect on ASICMINER share value, because they earn you BTC.

No. They earn BTC, but they are also priced in BTC to start with. Therefore if BTC doubles in value, then both their earning and price already implicitly double in USD value, hence preserving the value proposition of the shares. There are no economic reasons for their numerical BTC value to further increase on top of that change.

Another way to look at it is that the same share priced "X" BTC will return the same "Y" BTC of dividends regardless of the USD/BTC exchange rate. Variation of the exchange rate alone is insufficient to rationally cause "X" to increase while Y" remains constant. In fact, irrational investors who would buy more and more shares for no reason (pushing X up) would cause the dividend yield (Y/X) to decrease therefore making investing in ASICMINER less and less attractive compared to just holding BTC.

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Quote from: friedcat on March 13, 2013, 10:10:13 AM

Still more than one week to finish the first clause of ASICMINER's investor protection.

Let's say for the sake of argument that ASICMINER hashrate remains constant... what would expected dividends be once "the first clause of ASICMINER's investor protection" is fulfilled?

While we're at it, what would expected dividend be (assuming constant difficulty), upon arrivval of additional 50TH after "the first clause of ASICMINER's investor protection" is fulfilled?

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Fantastic, friedcat! I'm happy, your well deserved massive profits will kick in after next week!

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Quote from: friedcat on March 13, 2013, 10:18:43 AM

Quote from: DutchBrat on March 13, 2013, 10:16:18 AM

Quote from: friedcat on March 13, 2013, 10:10:13 AM

Still more than one week to finish the first clause of ASICMINER's investor protection.

687 Bitcoins have been excluded from the dividends to pay for the premium of pcb production, assembly and components of the next batch, as well as the operation costs.

Thanks for the update and dividend !

By next batch, do you mean the other 6TH or the 50Th ?

Thanks

The ~50TH/s batch.

great to hear that! I'm sure upon these news the price of shares will rise even more!

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Quote from: DutchBrat on March 13, 2013, 10:16:18 AM

Quote from: friedcat on March 13, 2013, 10:10:13 AM

Still more than one week to finish the first clause of ASICMINER's investor protection.

687 Bitcoins have been excluded from the dividends to pay for the premium of pcb production, assembly and components of the next batch, as well as the operation costs.

Thanks for the update and dividend !

By next batch, do you mean the other 6TH or the 50Th ?

Thanks

The ~50TH/s batch.

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Quote from: friedcat on March 13, 2013, 10:10:13 AM

Still more than one week to finish the first clause of ASICMINER's investor protection.

687 Bitcoins have been excluded from the dividends to pay for the premium of pcb production, assembly and components of the next batch, as well as the operation costs.

Thanks for the update and dividend !

By next batch, do you mean the other 6TH or the 50Th ?

Thanks

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Still more than one week to finish the first clause of ASICMINER's investor protection.

687 Bitcoins have been excluded from the dividends to pay for the premium of pcb production, assembly and components of the next batch, as well as the operation costs.

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Dividend day thread spam: just got BTC0.023786 per share. Cool

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Quote from: romerun on March 13, 2013, 05:51:30 AM

It's just a question of which will grow faster or stop growing. To have businesses doing business on a currency grow slower than the currency itself is unheard of. SDICE and AM are the top dogs and yet are expected be outpaced by bitcoin.

True for SD, wrong for AM. AM cannot be outpaced by bitcoin.

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Bitcoin is new, makes sense to hodl.

It's just a question of which will grow faster or stop growing. To have businesses doing business on a currency grow slower than the currency itself is unheard of. SDICE and AM are the top dogs and yet are expected be outpaced by bitcoin.

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Quote from: mrb on March 12, 2013, 09:30:33 PM

Yes I do take it into account: my point is that investing 0.6 BTC in Bitcoin may be more profitable than investing 0.6 BTC in ASICMINER. Because if BTC appreciates to $1000, then at the end of the day 0.6 BTC will be worth $600, whereas your ASICMINER share will be worth $250 (assuming my hypothetical example where the share is worth close to nothing after having returned only 0.25 BTC in dividends).

So, in your investment decisions, you need to compare them against holding BTC. If an investment does worse than merely holding BTC, then it is not an optimal investment.

That's just plain wrong for ASICMINER shares. Appreciation of BTC only has a positive effect on ASICMINER share value, because they earn you BTC. It does however apply to SatoshiDice, because betting volume (and hence profit) sure does correlate with USD/BTC.

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Quote from: Jutarul on March 12, 2013, 08:54:55 PM

Quote from: memvola on March 12, 2013, 08:20:40 AM

They may become a competitive hardware manufacturer and some kind of payment processor, depending how Bitcoin will evolve in the coming years. They might even stop producing chips altogether and build farms around the world. Or they could become the standard chip developer. It's an unknown future.

Yes. After the dust from the initial deployment settles, the company has to redefine the mission statement. Building professional mining systems (>$1M investment per customer) will be a very viable market. Bitfountain will have the reputation and the expertise to do this. If they play the cards right, Bitfountain will be the Cray of bitcoin mining.

It might even be a good idea to accept pre-orders for consumer and/or professional products now to increase liquidity and cover investment costs. Friedcat and his team achieved high reputation and proved to be more reliable than all competitors. Why not finance future endeavors with pre-orders, as they actually make sense now?

Initial Mining Operation -> Reputation -> Competitive advantage for pre-orders -> Consumer produts

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Quote from: VeeMiner on March 13, 2013, 01:44:56 AM

you seem to be an intelligent guy mrb. So let me tell you what I think. Some of your objections make sense, but I don't understand what you're trying to prove. No one is forcing you to buy ASICMINER shares for 0.6. The shares value is created by the market (and will be obviously more exact once there is a trading platform). So if you think they're too expensive - don't buy them. We get your point. Some people think ASICMINER will not be profitable in the future, some think otherwise. Some people think that if the company will be even more successful, they will be trading for 1 BTC a piece in the future. Why not? Friedcat proved that he can deliver and there is more hashrate on the way.

When you want to buy something you have to point out what's wrong with the item and make the price lower.

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Quote from: mrb on March 12, 2013, 09:30:33 PM

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mrb... what you still dont take into account is that we speak about bitcoins and bitcoins constantly raise in value.

Yes I do take it into account: my point is that investing 0.6 BTC in Bitcoin may be more profitable than investing 0.6 BTC in ASICMINER. Because if BTC appreciates to $1000, then at the end of the day 0.6 BTC will be worth $600, whereas your ASICMINER share will be worth $250 (assuming my hypothetical example where the share is worth close to nothing after having returned only 0.25 BTC in dividends).

So, in your investment decisions, you need to compare them against holding BTC. If an investment does worse than merely holding BTC, then it is not an optimal investment.

Quote from: memvola on March 12, 2013, 04:52:35 PM

Quote from: mrb on March 12, 2013, 01:45:16 PM

if you buy a share at 0.6 BTC today, and recoup 0.25 BTC by the end of 2013, and if after that the share's worth is close to 0 (because by that time ASICMINER will generate negligible profits), then you have not made any profit. You have lost 0.35 BTC per share.

That's quite right. If you think that ASICMINER will generate negligible profits after one year of operation, you shouldn't value it 0.6 per share. I for one don't understand why I should think that though.

I think that because friedcat has communicated very little in terms of future plans. What is his vision for growth beyond the next 12 months? What technical strategy will he adopt to compete with more efficient miners? Will he develop more efficient chips? Does he have the expertise in-house or will he have to hire it? Will he relocate the miners to a location with cheaper electricity? Will he have to hire foreign employees to manage them, or rent expensive oversea colo space? Will he consider building his own data center like Tytus (for his 100 Th/s farm which will be located in Wenatchee where power is only $0.02/kWh). Etc.

you seem to be an intelligent guy mrb. So let me tell you what I think. Some of your objections make sense, but I don't understand what you're trying to prove. No one is forcing you to buy ASICMINER shares for 0.6. The shares value is created by the market (and will be obviously more exact once there is a trading platform). So if you think they're too expensive - don't buy them. We get your point. Some people think ASICMINER will not be profitable in the future, some think otherwise. Some people think that if the company will be even more successful, they will be trading for 1 BTC a piece in the future. Why not? Friedcat proved that he can deliver and there is more hashrate on the way.

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mrb... what you still dont take into account is that we speak about bitcoins and bitcoins constantly raise in value.

Ahhhh. In this case make bank as a currency trader and forget asic. Wink

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