Re: ASICMINER: Entering the Future of ASIC Mining by Inventing It

I assume some revenue was kept back again this week, but does anyone know approximately how much has been kept back in total?

AM owns this (though it also gets divs) and seems like a lot of traffic to and from this address. http://blockchain.info/address/1HgTJED7XEGy4vVwKa8kgefWqUB3VRX2mW

Currently about 9000 BTC here.

Other stuff:
1. The HW payments I was keeping track off from group buy threads, most of them ended up here (http://blockchain.info/address/1ZGtnxLWYVDbUVXPQLTRqnF6Bv6u2BMf8). They still weren't part of the divs (~1670 BTC)

2. Similar one, with ~616 BTC still there - http://blockchain.info/address/18GHa147X18rdNPxJeuNeEM7L7SFzsvTyi - From hw sales

3. Both Sonic and Cannary's group buy payment still has approx. 500 BTC (I imagine most of this being sent to FC, after deducting reseller commission)

http://blockchain.info/address/16ARXc5LhCnz111qD5xRUR3mWVg6gkBcU4
http://blockchain.info/address/14ja5p6K1gqYgmZQPCU295UxducKwaT6pw

Thanks for keeping track of this!

so, ~2786 btc or so that hasn't gone into divs from HW sales. Maybe they will go in next week.

If that top address (9000 BTC) is withholding for expansion, that's a serious expansion planned.

Probably about a petahash.

Trouble is that it's still in BTC. If FC is going to be full-scale deployed by December he should have already sold that. Lead time on chips alone from e-beam sample receipt to full-scale 55nm shipping is probably in the neighborhood of ten weeks. Then there's the delay for assembly and deployment.

Either a large scale BTC buyer owns that address, or FC hasn't started using his Gen 2 funds. As far as I know, no 55nm-capable foundry accepts bitcoin.

Not to mention he's playing with fire by keeping future fiat liabilities in Bitcoin in the first place. That's like a gold mining company hoarding gold bars to save up for a new mine that they had promised to investors.