Quote from: gmouse on June 15, 2013, 06:56:54 PM

Quote from: Smidge on June 15, 2013, 12:08:27 PM

Quote from: TradeFortress on June 15, 2013, 11:50:44 AM

Also hosts MtGox.

That's quite funny, but as an investor, it would be nice to have some transparency.

It is a catch-22; we want transparency as investors, but any pictures of the actual data center also compromise security.

ASICMINER is already extremely transparent... we can watch all of their income on a minute by minute basis! IMO pictures of the datacenter would be really cool, but irrelevant for investors... and potentially helpful to competitors and/or malicious parties. I agree that a comment from them about physical datacenter security would be great.

Quote from: pierrejo on June 15, 2013, 07:30:03 PM

Quote from: Lohoris on June 15, 2013, 07:22:06 PM

That said, a statement such as "don't worry, we're aware of that, everything's ok" would be nice.

Too much of that and you run into BFL territory. I think board members are entitled to more transparency, but smaller shareholders should learn to not know everything - as long as you don't hear them panicking, you're probably ok - Friedcat coming by once a month for brief updates is very acceptable. IMO the crowd working itself into a mess of questions/doubts/requests: that's fine as long as it's within ourselves, but detrimental when directed at ASICminer.

There have been weekly updates on thursday or friday from the time the ASICs first came online until now, but I don't see one this week. Was it mentioned somewhere that updates are going to be monthly now?

Quote from: velacreations on June 16, 2013, 12:50:23 AM

Quote from: canth on June 15, 2013, 11:47:19 PM

Not without the dividend shrinking dramatically.

it will be lower for a few weeks, and that will definitely hurt share price. The question, ultimately, is by how much.

I don't have many of my shares on the exchanges and don't really watch the share price as closely as many others (I only check 5x/day instead of 50), but I expect that the news that they will have an updated blade available for a lower price in a matter of weeks, combined with the update that generation two ASICs will be ready in the fall, should more than make up for the two to four weeks of potentially lowered dividends due to the temporary suspension of blade sales. At least, to any investors who are buying shares for any reason other than grabbing a few weeks worth of divs.