ASICminer is a long range investment. The salon's main theme is "mining in the age of exahash", which we have not reached yet but will very soon. I like this sort of forward thinking. If FC was running around trying to mine all the coins at present network rates he would be playing a loser's game. Seems like he is already making moves to stay afloat in an exponentially growing network (franchising, R&D on newer better chips, open sourcing, community building amongst miners) Solo mining is very lovely to give ADD shareholders something to fixate on, but long term success requires more focus on innovative approach. It is more or less a given (and known for quite some time already) that the future of mining belongs to giant industrial operations. If FC has plans to move on that market, which I believe he very much has, we are in a great position. Bring on the salon, I hope there are many fluent chinese/english speakers ready to relay all that goes on there. I think we will hear some bold new strategies to take us into the age of exahash as leaders of the game!

yes, I hold shares in ASICminer, and yes I'm cheerleading. Go team!