Topic: Gigamining / Teramining - page 113. (Read 216450 times)

Appreciate the feedback.  I went and did some digging and discovered that GLBSE doesn't do it yet.  Stumbled across several deals in the works.  Unfortunately I'm not really the type to borrow stuff from peeps I don't know.  Maybe when GLBSE supports it I'll take another look.

Well, that's a good point
But GIGAMINING is not only a bond - it's also a business and a mark.
I was just thinking that GIGAMINING would maybe prefer to stay alive on GLBSE - having a reputation would make a further business easier.
Instead of just dying and re-appearing as GIGAMINING2, that gives 10MH/bond - which would make the business harder, because of the reputation

You could manually and privately borrow shares from someone else.

Or you can just bet that the difficulty will rise with someone else.

It is a bond, not a share, the bond issuer wants their debt to end up dead.  Doesn't everyone?

I already told you why: so Gigamining would not end up dead. Otherwise it will - despite of "growing"

Why would it grow?  You bought a debt obligation that will pay out whatever 5 MH/s makes.  That is like purchasing a bond that pays out 5% per year and hoping they increase it to 6% instead.

Not yet. Their current Singles are FPGA-based. See here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ok-i-confirmed-the-model-of-fpga-they-are-using-in-bfl-single-79825
Their Mini Rigs are probably made with the same kind of FPGA like bitfury's.


This is possible. But turning FPGA to ASIC is not cheap (the initial capital cost), and I don't know if it's very profitable given the current tiny market cap of the whole Bitcoin economy.


I hate to advertise in other people's thread. So I will PM you about my business which is a little more similar to what you want.

How?  Is GBLSE setup to allow for shorts?  I don't see this working out for the little guy.

AFAIK, the butterfly labs hardware is based on ASICs.
And moreover, if anyone else is working on his own chip, he doesn't want to disclose this information.
There is a lot of money on stake here and turning an FPGA solution (which do exist) into a much cheaper ASIC is relatively easy nowadays.

But it doesn't need to be like this.
As the business is growing, thus buying more efficient equipment, I see no reason why the promised 5MH could not grow along with it.
Otherwise new mining companies will appear, offering a better hashing power for a lower share price - while Gigaminig will end up dead.

As far as I know, ASICs for Bitcoins are still in the designing phase and no actual chips are mining now. Could you point URL to me to support "are there already" please?


Anyone buying it are aware of this. They are all betting that the dropping of dividends will be slow enough to let the cover the initial price. You are just the one who bet on the opposite. If you are so confident about your bet, you could short the bonds.

Of course it will happen. ASICs are there already and they will be getting cheaper and faster - month by month...
Having the new money gigamining will obviously buy a new and more efficient hardware - so for the current investors "growing" of the company makes sense only if the promised 5MH also keeps growing, along with the total number of shares...
If the 5MH/bond stays fixed forever, the dividends will get lower and lower and the bond price will eventually go down to zero - it's only a question of when.

And @ some of you guys, the big mr economists: you may be well educated on the field of economy, but you suck in basics of a logical thinking.

stuff up to the interesting point

Lol - par values went out with the dinosaurs and is not relevant (and it wasn't 1 anyway, and for most instruments would not have been 1).

Perhaps the recent 2.4M difficulty is in people's minds (15Th network speed) and with block reward changing, that is equiv of 4.8 or 1/3rd of current yield.  Yes, the perpetual bond pays, but what value is assigned to it will be interesting, especially if other assets promise higher returns.  It is an uncertain future and there was also the interesting post earlier that did mention the buyback clause, but that might just mean people trade at an inflated value to protect their investment.

Yep. THe fact that asics will push up difficulty into the stratosphere, rendering those 5MH even more worthless.
If anyone thinks Im wrong and wants to lend me these bonds for 6 - 12 months, pm me.

The block reward will get cut in half in 6 months, but some miners will close their operations, making difficulty down, so the payout won't necessarily drop so much.


The essence of mining bond is that the coupon equals to exactly the declared MH/s will get, no more, no less, no electricity fee reduced from it. The issuer pays the electricity fee him/her-self.


It's basically the consideration between whether you long mining/short bitcoin or you long bitcoin/short mining. If you believe that the dropping speed will be very fast, you could short mining bonds or simply hold your bitcoins. If you believe the otherwise, just buy.

Was considering investing, but I see that most peeps calculate out the payback at ~1 - 1&1/3 years and as far as I can tell the payout's gonna get cut in half in 6 months.  Since the first chunk of the payout has to go to cover the power bill, that means that what's left for investors is going to be far less than half of what the payout is now.

Hope that makes sense.  So what's the endgame?  Everyone still gets 5Mh/s, dividend drops to nothing, shares drop to nothing, you buy them back?

Or am I missing something?

LOL. 200G/s is not The Network!  The Networks is cranking happily at 10+ Thash/s.
Lets see now, what happens to 100% of 5 MH/s (coupon) when diff changes

A. 100% of 5 MH/s at difficulty 1483177 will get you ~ ฿0.023736 per week
B. 100% of 5 MH/s at difficulty 1583177 will get you ~ ฿0.022236 per week
C. 100% of 5 MH/s at difficulty 1683177 will get you ~ ฿0.020915 per week

But...but... the fixed BTC per unit of time.
Oh now! If difficulty goes up, your 5 MH/s will earn you less coin! But...but... the fixed BTC per unit of time!? Difficulty is not calculated only form your personal mining speed of 5 Mh/s. Network, as a whole, got faster, diff goes up and you earn less because you are still at 5 Mh/s.
Is that news to you?

And just to make sure, you do not miss it, current yield (% what you will earn) is calculated "interest payment"/"price you paid for the bond".
Lets keep it simple and not get in to YTM, annual returns and other similar calculations.

If you buy the bond at 1 (par) that promises you 0.023736 per bond in time frame X, you will be earning 2,3% (yield) in that time frame (week, month, year).
If I buy that same bond (same coupon) for 0,75 I will be earning 0.023736 per timeframe like you but my yield is way better  - 3.1648% in that time frame.I invested less, to earn the same income.

As you see, Gigamining has not promised us fixed div but what ever 5 MH/s can do at any given difficulty.

And for fuck sake, those are actually not bonds but more like Floating Rate Notes (FRN) with a variable coupon that is linked to a mining speed X.

Got it from me which is from my GLBSE parser bot.  If people are interested I can have downloadable links of this data for all the assets on GLBSE.  If so, reply in one of my other threads (see my signature too) so as to not get off topic from GIGAMINING.

Learning a lot of reading this last pages 
Just a question tho. How do you get this data?

                                .Open      .High      .Low       .Close       .Volume .Adjusted
2012-06-09 23:58:09  1.420000  1.497000 1.401100 1.497000     334     1.440984
2012-06-10 23:33:48  1.411100  1.411100 1.300100 1.300100    1026    1.361202
2012-06-11 15:17:18  1.375000  1.490000 1.010000 1.350000     966     1.406405

One thing that should be done is not to count trade fee when you are placing bids that don't match the ask side. That wouldn't do much but still. I'm against letting anyone to place bids without having his bid covered by BTCs.
BTW Bitbond is going to expand this Friday for undisclosed price, so many people took out their bids probably, including myself.

I was just looking at the Bitbonds and noticed that I could sell 100 and drive the price down to 0.0035!  Might be fun to do but - nah.  Most of the other order books are in similar shape.  We need to attract more buyers and make it easier to put up bids.  Margin/Credit accounts for trusted buyers would go a long way.  I know I have a hard time just letting my BTC sit there and sit there waiting for my order to fill.  If I could issue buy orders and pay for them later that sure would make a huge difference.