+1

The man is in the middle of a new product launch/shipping/support, potential large scale deployment of mining gear for own operations and probably new chip design/tapeout. Pretty sure attending to the relentless whining and nagging from this thread is quite low on his list of priorities right now.

Which makes the question:

Does one believe that AM's total dividend payments will be > BTC 68k (the amount above 68k representing ones desired ROI) within ones desired period of investment return?

If they, last year alone, paid out BTC 240k in dividends, this doesn't appear to be -wildly implausible- even considering stiffer competition over hash rate. The time scale is key here.

As another example: To justify a price of BTC 1 per share, AM needs to pay out > BTC 400k (the amount above 400k again representing ones desired ROI) in dividends within ones desired period of investment return, whatever it is. Whether or not one deems this scenario to be plausible is up to each individual shareholder, and in a rational market (which this is clearly not), this will determine the share price.

(obviously this doesn't account for any tradable assets accumulated by the company, but it's a simple and way of looking at AM share valuation)

ALZHMINER: Entering the Future by Forgetting the Past

Try not to have two or more questions baked into one. This practice begs for misunderstanding and/or incomplete/unsatisfactory answers. If we want clear answers we need to be very clear with our questions. I suggest we separate them into distinct lines so that each one must be answered in a standalone fashion:

1) Could you please provide an estimate on:
- When the next dividend can be expected ?
- When ASICminer will become cash-flow positive ?

2) Regarding self-mining and franchising:
- What is the current status of self mining and franchising ?
- What partners will be working with ASICminer ?
- What do the respective partnership agreements entail ?
- How many PH (including percentages from franchising) will -directly- contribute to ASICminer mining income ?

3) How many PH's of Gen 3 have already been sold/shipped by now ?

4) Regarding the "60 PH/s batch":
- Has this progressed any further ? (duh, of course it has, it's been a month. what, exactly, is it that we want to find out about this?)
- When is it supposed to be completely done ? (what are we really asking here? when is manufacturing due to be complete? or when will it be completely sold/deployed?)
- How much of it has already been sold ?

5) Given the ratio of 1/3 retained and 2/3 paid out of the revenue, is this after deducting costs for upcoming batches/expenses or are those part of the 1/3 of retained capital ?

6) AM sells chips to multiple mining companies including Rockminer, Datatank, Bitgarden, is it possible to get some clarity on the relationships AM has with different groups not including the ones above ?

7) Regarding Gen 4, can you give us rough (plus/minus a month or two) estimates on:
- When tape-out is expected ?
- When production is expected ?
- When the first chips will be in hand ?

8 ) Personal question from shareholder freedomno1 : Hi friedcat I have been receiving several requests for replacement baseboards/ power boards and parts for the block erupter cube and was wondering if their is a repair service or parts store available that I can relay to those individuals to contact with if something breaks.



Also, I would like to note that a lot of these questions are extremely business-sensitive, and if I was in FC's shoes I would definitely not answer them in a public forum.

Gentlemen, can we please stop entertaining the existence of these troglodyte homunculi from spoonderp? Whenever they post here this thread invariably retards into a complete trollfest rodeo shitshow for several pages. I'm starting to fear for my mental health. My ignore button is already glowing red, but all this quoting is making my life miserable. If I have to read any more of their verbal diarrhea I suspect my mirror neurons might degenerate completely and turn me into a mongoloid.

There's that logic again! We'll have none of that!

Get out of here with your logic!

Check out this board:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=438359.msg6652865;topicseen#new

He did indeed. Second hand, and stated as a probability, but still..

From Jutarul's q&a session with him:

"2) With the switch to selling chips, can we expect dividends to be paid out on are "more monthly" basis?
re 2) Most likely yes."

Would it be possible to get a comment from Havelock regarding the hearings in NY and the projected way forward for the exchange?

The regulators sounded rather hawkish with regards to Bitcoin security exchanges and although this all went down in the US, and Havelock is based in Panama, we all know very well that the US government isn't exactly famous for minding their own business.

How does Havlock intend to deal with potential problems/threats thrown their way from the US (I am particularly worried about the lack of proper client identification)? I am based in Europe, but i suspect most of the clientele on the website are in the United States so I would not be the least bit surprised if Uncle Sam now wants to stick his nose right up into Havelock matters.

Thoughts?

Many thanks for the prompt answers. Much appreciated.

Speaking of dividends, although regarding their initiation rather than their cessation: is there a tentative timeline for when shareholders might expect to see commencement of dividend payments?