Why was Asicsminer sold off? Did you not trade a lot of different stuff to get a lot of it?
I traded ASICMINER into OBSI.ABMO for 1:2 ABMO shares which....
1: Provided ABMO with half the ASICMINER shares it has, which....
2: Combined with the trade of OBSI.1MHS, DMC is around 50% of ABMO, and....
3: Obsi also traded his own ASICMINER into ABMO and purchased a few more which is the other half of ABMO's ASICMINER shares, which...
4: Means DMC's half of ABMO is now backed by around the same number of ASICMINER shares it traded into ABMO, which....
5: Means we get paid not only the original ASICMINER dividends we would have had anyhow, ...
6: We get paid dividends now on ABMO's existing ABMO hardware and....
7: Future dividends on BFL SC upgrades are also ours and...
8: ASICMINER at the time was around 0.10, two shares of ABMO at the time were 0.20, thus we doubled the book value of the investment, and...
9: This insulates from the risk of ASICMINER somewhat.
tl;dr: We doubled book value of the asset, added short term profits, possibly doubled long term profits (maybe even tripled), and became nearly majority owner in ABMO.