If they would sell that Boden hashpower at a decent rate, or fulfill orders with it...it would create a huge diff increase offset, and be a huge benefit to Neptune holders and the community as a whole, because it's already a part of the cloud, and would cause zero diff increase, yet at the same time offer a great deal. They do have the ability to turn it into a HUGE customer advantage in this way. I hope they "Do the right thing"
That would be HUGE imho, and may even happen.
SO you are KNC you have hashpower, it creates $x an hour, your customers can do math and will not buy it for more than $x an hour,
show me a business model where it makes more sense to sell it for $x minus a little to make it profitable for your customers vs. just keeping it all your self and making raw profit?
The KNCcloud is just there to appease you when Neptune comes in late, then they will go back to using it for their own profit, why are you expecting anything customer centric when their focus has clearly changed from that lonnnnng ago?
i agree this is most likely (but brave can hang on for refund a bit) but imho sometime in xmas the chip guys basically went to KNC in my view and said we can't make a chip at 20mm and get it to the customer in time enough for the diff change to make any real money..same thing for the 28mm...we can however go from chip design to a GH Farm fast enough to be ahead of the difficulty curve in that we make the chip and we make the equip at cost and we just pop it in....thus the horse change imho mid-stream.....now
er now..the question is do they 'cloud host" at a more modest rate then their competitors....fess up to the above on why they went virtual miner of some basis on the above theory? or do they just go for the mine like hell and go private
they could easily go private all up front costs we're paid by pre-orders compared to other asic firms i'd guess they have the most independence...ie no debt no angel investors to cut out the pie now
truth be told if they sold the GH hosting as a 'real' virtual miner operation that someone could make $$$ at (not like some where customers take all the risk) they easily could be huge....the sheer novelty of a 'modest' return from a farm where the math made sense and both the corp and the user of the farm took some of the risk in a more proportional manner ..hell....they would be the biggest farm in the world for cloud hosting virtual mining "IF THEY ARE FAIR I MEAN REALLY FAIR ABOUT IT" top that off with little debt ....and chip design in the future from design to module....at cost...they would be a very very big deal
but again why do all that if you can just mine...announce you are out of the equip business for BTC at a user level annouce you are at a commercial cloud hosting level (if you got the bucks to buy in as an investor) and just keep the $$$ machine going
the only way my above (i can hear the yelling i agree) likely fantasy..is if they really really do want to be a "fair trade" kind of asic mnfg company.....
ie are they gonna go for style points over mass profit? (apple) or for mass profit and shortcuts (microsoft)
likely it is mircosoft
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