Would Friedcat consider approaching some of the smaller mining pools directly with the franchising deals?
For instance offering machines in that fashion to the likes of ozcoin, deepbit etc. and other pools in the 1-5% of network size. I imagine these operations are in a good position to be able to bring that kind of hardware online and run it, since they are large enough to handle the hardware and small enough that they are able to scale up.
I think you misunderstand what the pools do. They aren't mining(or generally not very much), they are providing an interface to pool the mining of other people together.
Mining at asicminer scale is a big job with lots of problems and issues.
I concur, this is meant for medium-large mining coops and companies, not pools. I also don't think that friedcat needs to approach the potential customers, it's more likely that they will contact him directly once this option becomes widely known.
anyway thanks for the balance sheet and news, you rock friedcat!