Hi guys,

I am really sorry I dont visit this old nest more often, but I am busy running between EU and Asia.

About the 40K0 deal - its negative balance for us now, but will bring more customers next week. Also, some people rushed to reserve them, then they cancelled their orders so they were placed back in inventory.
The deal was created after discussion with some affiliate partners which will cover Black Friday week/day.
The new chip will be presented along with an offer to convert old shares (worst power consumption) to new shares (better power, multi coin but with an extra cost.)
This also explains why there is no request for contract renewal from our side.

Cheers,
Chris

He posted this on Litecointalk a week ago or so: https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=6401.msg221406#msg221406

That's why he's not worrying about the share age. However, I'm not sure if he's still doing the conversion thing because he also posted on LTCGear that his plan wasn't to unveil Generation II this early. I don't think we'll have to pay though.