Topic: μ - Bitcoin Venture Capital (Collecting Shareholders Data) - page 6. (Read 27103 times)

What we do and how we are different

As we grow larger, we are probably getting many new and potential investors who don't have the time to study our history data of financial disclosure, our structure or policies. Here we explain μ with a shorter and clearer manner.

The business of μ contains:
1. investment on valuable new stocks and bonds.
2. market making.
3. arbitraging.
4. value investment on old existing assets.
5. providing loans.
6. funding startups outside the GLBSE system.
Now we are only doing 1-4. We may do 5 and 6 in the future, but we will be extremely careful and make sure that the involved risks are rigidly controlled.

What makes μ different:
1. We are a stock, not a bond. Which means that:
    (1) you can vote if you are one of the shareholders.
    (2) you actually own your portion of μ's net asset value.
    (3) you can give us public or private suggestions, which will possibly be accepted by the CEO and turned into motions.
2. Each of our mid-time or long-time positions was and will ever be assets with a business model that is sound, public, and easy to understand. We may participate in high-risk assets, but only for arbitraging, and we will keep the time of holding them as short as possible.
3. Our name is the shortest of all.

The MU Index for GLBSE

44.11 (kBTC)
218.94 (kDollar)

BTC Price: 4.963$

TyGrr-Bot
  Category: Long Term Bond
  Business: Arbitraging
  Shares in Circulation: 7326
  Avg Price: 0.967BTC
  Total Value: 7084.242BTC
  Total Value in Dollar: 35159.093$

PureMining
  Category: Perpetual Bond
  Business: Mining
  Shares in Circulation: 10000
  Avg Price: 0.450BTC
  Total Value: 4500.000BTC
  Total Value in Dollar: 22333.500$

GigaMining
  Category: Perpetual Bond
  Business: Mining
  Shares in Circulation: 10000
  Avg Price: 1.494BTC
  Total Value: 14940.000BTC
  Total Value in Dollar: 74147.220$

Cognitive
  Category: Stock
  Business: Mining
  Shares in Circulation: 5000
  Avg Price: 0.533BTC
  Total Value: 2665.000BTC
  Total Value in Dollar: 13226.395$

FPGA.contract
  Category: Stock
  Business: Mining
  Shares in Circulation: 6000
  Avg Price: 0.372BTC
  Total Value: 2232.000BTC
  Total Value in Dollar: 11077.416$

BFLS
  Category: Stock
  Business: Mining
  Shares in Circulation: 3600
  Avg Price: 1.600BTC
  Total Value: 5760.000BTC
  Total Value in Dollar: 28586.880$

BMMO
  Category: Stock
  Business: Mining
  Shares in Circulation: 6782
  Avg Price: 0.336BTC
  Total Value: 2278.752BTC
  Total Value in Dollar: 11309.446$

SS
  Category: Stock
  Business: Fund
  Shares in Circulation: 610
  Avg Price: 1.900BTC
  Total Value: 1159.000BTC
  Total Value in Dollar: 5752.117$

MU
  Category: Stock
  Business: Fund
  Shares in Circulation: 5000
  Avg Price: 0.699BTC
  Total Value: 3495.000BTC
  Total Value in Dollar: 17345.685$

Thanks.

The liquidity and volume of GLBSE stocks is growing. The more professional look-and-feel is attracting more people. New assets keep being bumped out. Though we are cautious about most of them, they are a good sign. Opportunities for arbitraging, maket making, and long-time holding are also becoming more and more.

In a word, the growth of μ is and will be very healthy.

My dividend on 2012-05-08 sure was nice.  Thank you and keep up the good work!

Update

The second round of public offering has finished. All the 1,200 public and 700 private shares are all sold out, much more quickly than we thought. The CEO permanently gives up his fee and takes 100 shares as his compensation, as was passed by the motion.

Thank to all new and old investors. We've successfully expanded to a larger scale now. Towards great value and growth we are coming!

Weekly Financial Disclosure

Time: 11:04 AM, Beijing time
Date: May 09, 2012

Funds of Last Week: 137.699 BTC

Newly Raised Funds: 842.841 BTC

Assets:

BitBond
Original: 148shares 88.504BTC
Bought in: 597shares 364.397BTC
Average Holding Price: (88.504+364.397)/(148+597)=0.608BTC
Sold: 0shares 0.000BTC
Average Selling Price: N/A
Holding: 148+597-0=745shares 452.901BTC
Net Gain: 0.000BTC
Dividends Paid: 1.520BTC

Gigamining
Original: 36shares 47.160BTC
Bought in: 0shares 0.000BTC
Average Holding Price: 1.310BTC
Sold: 36shares 56.592*(1-0.5%)=56.309BTC
Average Selling Price: 1.564BTC
Holding: 36+0-36=0shares 0.000
Net Gain: 56.309-47.160=9.149
Dividends Paid: 0.000BTC

BDK
Original: 150shares 9.900BTC
Bought in: 0shares 0.000BTC
Average Holding Price: 0.066BTC
Sold: 84shares 16.716*(1-0.5%)=16.632BTC
Average Selling Price: 0.198BTC
Holding: 150+0-84=66shares 4.356BTC
Net Gain: (0.198-0.066)*84=11.088BTC
Dividends Paid: 0.141BTC

JLP-BMD
Original: 200shares 50.000BTC
Bought in: 508shares 126.892BTC
Average Holding Price: (50.000+126.892)/(200+508)=0.250BTC
Sold: 0shares 0.000BTC
Average Selling Price: N/A
Holding: 200+508-0=708shares 176.892BTC
Net Gain: 0.000BTC
Dividends Paid: 1.346BTC

Cognitive
Original: 0shares 0.000BTC
Bought in: 300shares 156.300BTC
Average Holding Price: (0.000+156.300)/(0+300)=0.521BTC
Sold: 30shares 16.500BTC
Average Selling Price: 0.55BTC
Holding: 0+300-30=270shares 140.670BTC
Net Gain: (0.55-0.521)*30=0.870BTC
Dividends Paid: 0.000BTC

PPT.C
Original: 0shares 0.000BTC
Bought in: 77shares 83.161BTC
Average Holding Price: (0.000+83.161)/(0+77)=1.080BTC
Sold: 77shares 88.935*(1-0.5%)=88.490
Average Selling Price: 1.149
Holding: 0+77-77=0shares 0.000BTC
Net Gain: 88.490-83.161=5.329BTC
Dividends Paid: 0.000BTC

Holding Funds=
137.699+842.841-364.397+0.000+1.520-0.000+56.309+0.000-0.000+16.632+0.141-
126.892+0.000+1.346-156.300+16.500+0.000-83.161+88.490=430.728BTC

Total Net Gain=
0.000+1.520+9.149+0.000+11.088+0.141+0.000+1.346+0.870+0.000+5.329+0.000=29.443BTC

Calculated Dividends: 29.443*100%=29.443BTC (100% dividends during fundraising)

Usable Funds: 430.728-29.443=401.285BTC

Actual Dividends: 29.443614BTC (For Adjusting the rounding errors)

NAV: 401.285+270*0.537+745*0.625+66*0.14+708*0.249=1197.432BTC
Weekly NAV growth: N/A (expansion stage)

Update

During the last 24 hours, all of the private offering shares are pre-ordered, and more than half of the public offering shares are sold out.

Catch them if you can.

Update

The public offering already starts! Get yourself a part of μ on GLBSE, and profit!

Update

The second round public offering will soon be released. For further information, please read the OP.

All of the three motions are passed.

ID 19: Yay-132 Nay-41
ID 20: Yay-613 Nay-42
ID 21: Yay-660 Nay-3

The numbers of total votes are relatively low, however. We guess it's because some people are not familiar with the new look of GLBSE and some have missed the message in this thread. Nevertheless, we also have already contacted some of our major shareholders, and got their approvals.

Our plans according to the motions will be announced soon, and the actual actions will be taken later than the notification.

The MU Index for GLBSE

40.02 (kBTC)
203.72 (kDollar)

BTC Price: 5.090$

TyGrr-Bot
  Category: Long Term Bond
  Business: Arbitraging
  Shares in Circulation: 7122
  Avg Price: 1.097BTC
  Total Value: 7812.834BTC
  Total Value in Dollar: 39767.325$

PureMining
  Category: Perpetual Bond
  Business: Mining
  Shares in Circulation: 10000
  Avg Price: 0.441BTC
  Total Value: 4410.000BTC
  Total Value in Dollar: 22446.900$

GigaMining
  Category: Perpetual Bond
  Business: Mining
  Shares in Circulation: 10000
  Avg Price: 1.506BTC
  Total Value: 15060.000BTC
  Total Value in Dollar: 76655.400$

Cognitive
  Category: Stock
  Business: Mining
  Shares in Circulation: 5000
  Avg Price: 0.581BTC
  Total Value: 2905.000BTC
  Total Value in Dollar: 14786.450$

FPGA.contract
  Category: Stock
  Business: Mining
  Shares in Circulation: 6000
  Avg Price: 0.355BTC
  Total Value: 2130.000BTC
  Total Value in Dollar: 10841.700$

BFLS
  Category: Stock
  Business: Mining
  Shares in Circulation: 2000
  Avg Price: 1.250BTC
  Total Value: 2500.000BTC
  Total Value in Dollar: 12725.000$

BMMO
  Category: Stock
  Business: Mining
  Shares in Circulation: 6620
  Avg Price: 0.364BTC
  Total Value: 2409.680BTC
  Total Value in Dollar: 12265.271$

SS
  Category: Stock
  Business: Fund
  Shares in Circulation: 610
  Avg Price: 2.485BTC
  Total Value: 1515.850BTC
  Total Value in Dollar: 7715.677$

MU
  Category: Stock
  Business: Fund
  Shares in Circulation: 3000
  Avg Price: 0.427BTC
  Total Value: 1281.000BTC
  Total Value in Dollar: 6520.290$

Thank you very much! I didn't expect someone will be so kind to do advertisement on youtube for us. I'll watch it.

At this moment, we are rather small and our funds are limited, so startups might not be getting very much from us. But if our second round fundraising is doing well, we may be able to be interesting to new startups. But we want to emphasis again here as in the OP when μ was created, that it is better for you to get our funds to first pretend that we do not exist, try to introduce your company well on the forums or your own webpages, and raise funds on GLBSE. It will both reduce your cost of asking and our cost of investigation.

Okay video is being processed but fully uploaded and available for view when requested.

Placed your company in a positive lite as a future stop for bitcoin business owners looking to generate start up capital. Also shed some light on Diablo Mining's mining venture.

Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8axlbBh3nMk

Enjoy!

I will be releasing a new promotional vlog centering interest on your business as well as the diablomining venture.

Congrats!

Update

As everyone can see from our financial report, in the last two weeks our weekly ROI exceeded 5% with respect to the IPO price. This is close to the highest return rates in the Bitcoin world, and what makes us special is that we are recklessly open with our financial data.

Someone may say this kind of high return rates couldn't last forever. Of course it won't, or it only takes 330.4 weeks (less than six and a half years) for our fund to consume all of the 21 million Bitcoins. Such a speedy growth has to slow down in the future, and the question is when.

We ourselves are very optimistic towards μ. The reasons of high return rates include some luck, of course. But more importantly, it's the evolution of GLBSE, the thriving of new startups, and the relatively high return rates of mining, that contributes much more to our profits. We believe that none of these conditions will change in a short time, so expect a fast and steady growth.

Update

Three motions have been raised. The contents in two of them were mentioned before in this thread, but since we did not get many replies towards them, we finally decided to create corresponding motions.

Weekly Financial Disclosure

Time: 09:30 AM, Beijing time
Date: May 02, 2012

Funds of Last Week: 189.277 BTC

Assets:

BitBond
Original: 134shares 79.730BTC
Bought in: 141shares 84.600BTC
Average Holding Price: (83.616+84.600)/(134+141)=0.598BTC
Sold: 127shares 79.191*(1-0.5%)=78.795BTC
Average Selling Price: 0.620BTC
Holding: 134+141-127=148shares 88.504BTC
Net Gain: (0.620-0.598)*127=2.794BTC
Dividends Paid: 1.472BTC

Gigamining
Original: 40shares 52.400BTC
Bought in: 0shares 0.000BTC
Average Holding Price: 1.310BTC
Sold: 4shares 5.960*(1-0.0%)=5.960BTC
Average Selling Price: 1.490BTC
Holding: 40+0-4=36shares 47.160BTC
Net Gain: (1.490-1.310)*4=0.720BTC
Dividends Paid: 0.916BTC

BFLS
Original: 0shares 0.000BTC
Bought in: 8shares 9.150BTC
Average Holding Price: 1.144BTC
Sold: 8shares 9.750*(1-0.0%)=9.750BTC
Average Selling Price: 1.219BTC
Holding: 0+8-8=0shares 0.000BTC
Net Gain: 9.750-9.150=0.600BTC
Dividends Paid: 0.015BTC

BDK
Original: 0shares 0.000BTC
Bought in: 395shares 26.070BTC
Average Holding Price: 0.066BTC
Sold: 245shares 27.697*(1-0.5%)=27.559BTC
Average Selling Price: 0.112BTC
Holding: 0+395-245=150shares 9.900BTC
Net Gain: (0.112-0.066)*245=11.270BTC
Dividends Paid: 0.000BTC

JLP-BMD
Original: 0shares 0.000BTC
Bought in: 200shares 50.000BTC
Average Holding Price: 0.250BTC
Sold: 0shares 0.000BTC
Average Selling Price: N/A
Holding: 0+200-0=200shares 50.000BTC
Net Gain: 0.000BTC
Dividends Paid: 0.000BTC

Holding Funds=
189.277-84.600+78.795+1.472-0.000+5.960+0.916-9.150+9.750+0.015-26.070+27.559+0.000-50.000+0.000+0.000=143.924BTC

Total Net Gain=
2.794+1.472+0.720+0.916+0.600+0.015+11.270+0.000+0.000+0.000=17.787BTC

Calculated Dividends: 17.787*35%=6.225BTC

Usable Funds: 143.924-6.225=137.699BTC (The CEO does not take any fee this week)

Actual Dividends: 6.22367728BTC (For Adjusting the rounding errors)

NAV: 137.699+148*0.634+36*1.504+150*0.141+200*0.248=356.425BTC
weekly NAV growth: 356.425/333.152-1=6.99%

Another thing I want to emphasis, is that both our NAV increasing and the dividends come from our profit. 60%(65% if I don't take fees) of the profits go to NAV, and 35% of the profits are paid as dividends. So suppose we will be as profitable as last week for many weeks, at the same time a shareholder needs 1.5 years to get 0.15975BTC/share from dividends, the NAV itself already rises to 0.11105+(0.15975*60%/35%)=0.38491BTC/share then.

Therefore, while people who drove the price of MU high are of course optimistic towards our business, they probably are good at math as well.

I think the Greater Fool Theory does apply to many circumstances. But a large price increase does not necessarily mean that the Greater Fool Effect is a dominant factor. While the rise of Bitcoin price from 2010's 0$ to last June's 20$ might be mainly caused by the Fools, the rise from 2010's 0$ to today's 5$ is probably not.

Thank you very much. I like your criticism. We will calculate the NAV out in future financial reports. But we have to explain some of my points here:

1. It is common that an asset is traded at a price far above (NAV/number of shares). If you liquidate a company of great performance, the money you get could be comparative to the NAV, and I believe that it will usually be much less than the market value. Just take GLBSE mining stocks as examples, if you use 1000BTC to buy GPUs, the NAV automatically shrinks to less than 600BTC after the first minute they are plugged onto motherboards, and if you buy FPGAs, I believe the NAV will be less than 200BTC after they are used for the first time. How long should shareholder wait to fully recover the price difference?

2. Yes, it will take 1.5 years to recover that premium. But even at this price level, the time is still shorter than some of the mining companies on GLBSE.

3. We are not an ETF, we are a venture capital fund, and besides hunting IPOs and startups, we are also doing arbitraging, market making, and anything that could bring our shareholders greater returns.

4. I myself, as many folks do, think MU will be accelerating its revenue in all scales of time. This is why I started MU in the first place.