Currently almost 70% of all Bitcoins mined today are being created upon KnCMiner hardware, distributed to customers in over 120 countries globally.
... Does KnC still plan to stop shipping sometime to let their customers get ROI? If they hold to that, could be a interesting self imposed fall from the top for them.
They carefully worded that Network Protection Statement to leave themselves with an out to keep selling hardware:
https://www.kncminer.com/news/news-24We would like to state that If any of our competitors continues to add large amounts of hashing power to the network during December, January or February. We will continue to release our devices as competitively priced as we can to protect our customers share of the network.
The term "large" is relative, so it can be interpreted liberally; i.e., it means whatever KnC want it to mean.
Releasing more devices might protect their customers' total share of the network, but individual customers only care about their own personal share of the network. Individual KnC customers are competing for a share of the network with other KnC customers as much as they are with miners using devices from other manufacturers. Selling more hardware will do nothing to protect their customers, it'll dilute their returns further.
It's a warm fuzzy statement that promises nothing and isn't enforceable, so I would assume that they have no intention of denying themselves of profit. If I was one of their investors and they didn't try to maximize profit I'd sack management.
