The SinoHash project was launched with the vision to bring profitable mining to the bitcoin masses.
Two weeks down the road, I realized that this is not going to benefit the masses - the numerical majority of the community as much as the whales - those who have a bitcoin wealth and higher risk tolerance. Right now, two of my clients account for 80% of the miners hosted in my farm while the rest account for less than 10%. When a strong motivation of doing this is the prospects of working for myself so it was not my intension just working for the few wealthy clients.
I do however received some email inquiries from people belonging to the first category and they expressed interest but also concerns.
They are small investors who are interested in mining but have less risk tolerance. Many have experience investing in cloud mining.
Here is one example that involves a certain Ed.
I first knew Ed because he paid for two S9 hosting packages through the SinoHash website - which is the monthly cost for hosting one unit of S9 ASIC miner manufactured by Bitmain Tech at SinoHash Penthouse.
Ed never contacted me after he made the purchase and seeemed to have forgotten the matter altogether.
After a few days I decided to contact him explaining the idea of SinoHash. The monthly hosting package is something that you need to pay for after you already have a miner hosted with us - think of it as owning a mobile phone and toping it up monthly to use it.
This was never the case with Ed.
I wrote him and offered to refund him if he misunderstood the idea.
Turned out I was right. Ed replied that he thought he was buying something else - He said he previously invested in cloud mining and assumes that by paying he bought some shares.
I asked him if he was interested in buying a miner and has it hosted with us.
He said that he didn't feel comfortable investing in a whole unit of S9, which requires a considerable initial investment of 1700 dollars - apparently too much for him.
Ed's case is not incidental as there are many people out there like him - they want to invest but are daunted by 1700 dollar initial investment.
Would there be any ways to serve them?
First idea that came across my mind is to have a group of miners, say 100S9s and divide them into 10,00 "shares". Each shareholder can own as little as 1/10 of the total value of a S9 and they will be entitled to 1/10 the daily dividends of the miner.
The second is rent to own - which requires investors to pay a monthly increment until they paid the full amount of a miner so they will own the unit.
Right now I am still working on the details, but if you have any good suggestions, I am all ears.