FYI, I agree with your evaluation but I'm uncertain about the timeline.  Doing the math, buying ASIC's yourself gives you a better GH/$ ratio(3-4x at this price) but is not practical for my situation, and I think your 6mo timeline is a bit aggressive.  Obviously I can hope, but, I've worked out conservative timelines that work for me and my long-horizon view, hence my bidding.

Thanks for running this auction though; I look forward to closing the transaction soon.

To answer someone else's question about board seats, they generally don't make much difference.  In general, board members at a corporation have some say/input into company decisions, and a bit deeper insight into the corporation's day-to-day running, at the tradeoff of the responsibility & legal implications of being an insider trader.  It is a good move over a very long timespan(generally, a multi-year or even multi-decade timeline), but ironically perhaps a less-good move in light of the GH/$ ratios mentioned above.