As a long time lurker in the other thread I think its about time we make a separate thread to discuss price speculation. We have too many opinion pieces in the other thread and its getting slightly out of control. To put it simply, its not good to have speculation going on the in the main thread, it is very confusing to new investors.
Dear Shareholders,
First of all we like to thank you for your patience and your confidence in our team and our business.
A little history to remind early shareholders and inform new shareholders what has happened so far. We started trading on btct.co mid-August and set a goal of 1 GH/s per share to be deployed with Cointerra systems in December. Soon after this we decided to do an incentive for our shareholders and set up our first mine with custom made Bitfury systems free for all shareholders. We mined a couple of weeks and paid a total dividend of 915 BTC. In the meantime btct.co closed and we moved our stock to Cryptostocks.com. After taking a vote, we decided to sell all the hardware to obtain more hashrate to be deployed in the mid-December mine. As a result all shares became entitled to 2.4 GH/s. We also made the decision to split our risk between Cointerra and Bitmine and we moved to Havelockinvestements because of the strict regulations on that exchange.
We have done everything in our power to start the mining as soon as possible. To do so, we have split the risk between two different hardware suppliers. Unfortunately, like 90% in this business, there have been delays with both of them. Our datacenter is ready to receive the miners for weeks now, so up till last week it was a frustrating waiting game for all of us.
We really believe in our project the PETAMINE and have invested a lot of time and money in it. We have set an ambitious goal to obtain and retain a minimum of 2% of the network.
To achieve this 2% goal, these factors are of crucial importance:
1. Start date of the PETAMINE
2. Initial hashrate of the PETAMINE
3. Speed and cost of reinvestment
4. Hosting capacity
1. Start date of the PETAMINE
We suffered delays which were out of our control. Nevertheless we are proud to have started the deployment of the mine on the 13th of February. The progress of deployment can be followed here:
http://eligius.st/~wizkid057/newstats/userstats.php/1PETAmNrgdzx3FwzJPNuhx18JVKdGtwWt62. Initial hashrate of the PETAMINE
Our initial contract stated a hashrate of 1 GH/s per share which we were able to increase to 2.4 GH/s per share thanks to the Bitfury hardware sale.
Due to current delays in delivery and because of the crucial importance of the initial hashrate of the PETAMINE, we like to announce that WE WILL DEPLOY AN ASTONISHING 700 TH/S INSTEAD OF THE PROMISED 230 TH/S. This means a hashrate of 8.68 GH/S PER SHARE OR 3 TIMES THE PROMISED HASHRATE! We are confident that this is the extra push the PETAMINE needs to really excel! You can find the confirmed deployment schedule below.
CryptX will remain the right to IPO the remaining 19,326 shares at an equal hashrate per share at the time of the IPO, so no dilution is possible. This enables us to give the PETAMINE an extra boost of minimum 170 TH/s.
3. Speed and cost of reinvestment
A lot of the success of the PETAMINE will depend on how and when the 35% reinvestment funds will be used. To ensure a fast deployment at a low cost, we decided to produce our own mining hardware based on the A1 chips. To accomplish this, we have currently 3 teams working on 3 different designs. We will choose the most optimal design in terms of costs and convenience for our production.
We also secured a huge chip deal which enables us to manufacture our own mining hardware.
4. Hosting capacity
We own our own datacenter which has currently a capacity up to 750 TH/s, which enables us to deploy very fast and use custom designed hardware. We have engineered a standard unit with a hosting capacity of 500 TH/s, which can be installed fully operational in a matter of weeks. This enables us to expand at a very fast pace.
CryptX has invested a lot in our current datacenter and will have to do so in the future. The applied hosting costs of 0.45$/kwh includes all costs for the PETAMINE, so no extra electricity costs, maintenance costs, operational costs, management fees or any other costs will be charged.
Deployment schedule:
Cointerra
Currently: 26 TerraMiners fully deployed
Next week: 4 TerraMiners
Bitmine:
Currently: 8 Coincraft Desks fully deployed
Next week: 62 Coincraft Desks
Week 10: 55 Coincraft Rigs
Week 11: 55 Coincraft Rigs
Week 12: 55 Coincraft Rigs
Week 13-15: 250 TH/s of custom hardware together with the first reinvestment units
Please see below to a link to PETAMINE's hashing statistics.
Does anyone have an updated spreadsheet with the 700TH/s delivery numbers?