Topic: ASICMINER: Entering the Future of ASIC Mining by Inventing It - page 813. (Read 3917468 times)

Feeling good about AM

great questions, nice work. But wasn't that quoted one already asked?
I remember FC said something like that they are working on this, and they would give access to that, then.

Am I wrong?
What's about this?

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QUESTIONS

Does ASICMINER/Bitfountain intend to create and official website and/or blog outside of the bitcointalk forums?
 
Does ASICMINER have plans to develop a marketing campaign to extend beyond word of mouth and business on the bitcointalk.org?
 
Originally, board members were going to receive a test unit of an ASIC mining device. Will you provide this or any other tangible items to board members in the future?
 
Could we have an official live hashrate meter from ASICMINER?
 
For more transparency, is it possible to share a wallet address for depositing income from ASICMINER hardware sales?

What are the plans regarding the Official ASICMINER Exchange? Have they been dropped?

Besides mining, hardware sales, and fees, are there any other potential sources of revenue?
 

+1, well said.

If you're uncertain don't sell it all, keep a fraction. Also re-investing all your BTC into equity is risky, because it exposes you to having to short sell. Don't get infected by the rampage going on in other stocks. Do your due diligence. Holding BTC is still a good strategy if you don't have the time to make bitcoin related investment decisions, because BTC itself is a commodity which is bound to appreciate and it has no counter-party risk.

Spray and pray can work - but only if you don't miss the golden goose. The mining landscape becomes more crowded now since the run-up in bitcoin price (which makes the NRE costs worth it). Please know that most of these offerings are a strategy of these companies to outsource the investment risk - i.e. the NRE and initial production costs - while retaining a large fraction of the equity. If these companies don't make back their NRE and production costs in yield (given they don't fail), then you're looking at an overvaluation at IPO. In that case it is prudent to wait until the valuation has adjusted to fairly priced.

The situation for ASICMINER is slightly different than for newcomers. ASICMINER is already well capitalized and can use proceeds to grow the operation and business. It would require a massive VC funding to get any of the newcomers equally capitalized. Thus ASICMINER has less risk exposure. However, as stated elsewhere, the pricing for ASICMINER has less room for growth (if you're searching for the 10-fold investment type).

yep I get that part, the main question now is how to maximise my BTC after making an irrational sale... I believe in AM but 4ish could have been the ceiling for the time being. I don't have the time or expertise to make a calculation on this so reaching out to the community can (and not definitely will) help just to get a new perspective while I kick myself a bit.

Buying mining stocks is like investing in BTC/fiat speculation but earning dividends + valuation increases on top of that. It's like a layered multiple, when valued against fiat. I think it's why most of us are here - we believe in BTC and we want to share in the mining rewards in addition to rather than instead of BTC/fiat investments.

Agreed, in the short term, hardware sales are fare more lucrative so there is more of an impact on revenue.

Long term, I would say that it's not just as simple as pointing to a new pool. Let's put it bluntly - internet networking services in china are more problematic than 95% of the rest of the planet (yeah, North Korea, Iran and a few others are worse). Friedcat is going to have to add data centers outside of China or engage in "creative" networking solutions to work around the inherent flaws in the ChinaTel/ChinaUnicom solutions. If he needs it, I'm sure there are a number of experienced forum members who can help advise on this topic, myself included.

I see this orphan, tx fee discussions as red herring.  Tx fee are insignificant relative to block reward.  Even if that tx fee becomes huge and ASICMINER solo mining is unable to capture them, it can always be limited to a couple of percent by pointing to mining pools again.

There's now technical / manufacturing issue (delay of blades) and potentially supply chain / demand forecast issue (USB ran out of stocks) - those are far more critical.

ok thanks, I'm a very uneducated irrational speculator so this helps.

I'll have to do my homework on the other stocks. Though part of me is inclined to just cold storage these coins now and sit on them for a bit... BTC/USD price is displaying interesting behaviour atm

My advice? If I were throwing BTC at mining stocks, I'd spread it around with AM, AMC, LabCoin, BTCGarden etc. AM is proven and therefore less risky, but also has less growth potential, given the current price. I'm a huge AM fan and I hope to stay an investors for years to come, but putting all your fried feline eggs in one basket still isn't wise - diversify!

for some reason I sold all my shares at 3.8x, I had just returned from holiday and didn't know what was going on I guess... hashrate down, blabla...


Buy back now? I have made a large profit so far, but was happy until yesterday to leave my BTC in AM.


I will have lost one whole share if I do, but at least I'm still with AM (who I had planned to stick with for at least 6 months... that's 4 months to go...)

I've made some charts just to check if something happened to the fees after this week's missing ASICMINER tag in the blocks.

Fees of the mined blocks since the 1st of July by ASICMINER:


Average fees of the 10 previous mined blocks by ASICMINER:


Average fees of the 50 previous mined blocks by ASICMINER:


The next one is pretty interesting.
When using a log scale it's clearly visible that the lower right part of the chart has no dots!  


I think it's WAY to early to come to a conclusion, but because the charts will update itself I thought I'd share it and we'll see soon.


However, even if this takes months to fix, keep in mind that the missed fees are so low in comparison to whole blocks (1% ?)
that even adding 400GH/s is more effective than spend days and days to figure out how the fees can be increased.

Ugh... that explains why I got the wrong amount of dividends after the direct transfer. I've written both Friedcat and Burnside... 

Anything else I should do?   

Those are the pre-order.  they are being filled with old blades base on posts on Chinese sites.

I was just working on the sheet. It is fixed now.

Now the 36h - 6h chart is just giving us the finger

waiting for the blades to show up

Are new blades shipping now or does this mean something else?

http://ttbit.sinaapp.com/t/62

Yes, I know, it is just dumb luck, but still...