Answers to Recent Questions of Shareholders' Concern
- When can we expect an official public relations appointment and what channels will be used to announce information?
Still no dedicated full-time PR employee yet, since existing people in the company can only do it part-time, and knowing internals about the company business and arrangements poses requirements on some kind of loyalty for new employees, therefore we are still looking for the right people. Before that my collegues and I will keep updating information. The channel will still be forums from the start.
- What is the size of the first Gen 3 deployment and when is it expected?
It depends on if there are any external orders for the first Gen 3 deployment and the final performance when the chips are out. From 2P to 20P are possible.
- How will Gen 3 be divided between mining, franchising and hardware sales?
It depends on the users of our chips. It is a safe bet that we will be moving more to pure chip distribution. But if the edge of low cost on whole devices and deploying still exists in 2014 on our side, we will do more mining/franchising/hardware sales ourselves.
- What process size does Gen 3 use?
40nm. Anything below that and taking the same optimization way as ours will consume too much time before taping out.
- What will happen after all cubes are sold? Will there be anything coming between now and the first Gen 3 deployment?
During pre-production and production of the Gen3, most of our time will be spent on negotiating large chip orders (from us) and locating large-scale mining farm operations.
- Have dividends been paid out to shareholders for the cube sales yet?
Yes. But fiat payments are not exchanged for Bitcoins yet and kept as company funds.