I'm hoping my order comes sometime soon as well.  Unfortunately, orders submitted in November of 2011 still haven't been delivered, so I wouldn't put too much faith in BFL Singles arriving for any recently submitted orders anytime soon.

I'm looking for a logo for my mining company MergedMining: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=47490.0

Something that would look good on a light colored background and uses the color blue (#004993) with perhaps some black/white would be appreciated.  I would also like it to have a transparent background like Ragged Monk's, which was very nice.  Anything having to do with computers or bitcoin mining for a theme would be great.  Will pay 1 BTC upon completion.  Thank you!

Damn you!    I'll go to 6.5 BTC... 

6 BTC if you send the code first and are willing to wait until I've received shipping confirmation before I send payment.  

Thank you for the kind words about my company.  I also appreciate the criticism regarding a failure plan.  While I do have a plan in place for liquidating assets and returning funds to investors should the company fail, I have no plan in place if I were to be hit by a bus.  I will begin working on a plan for this scenario immediately.


Back to your thread -
I think the differences in how companies are run makes a huge impact on your analysis.  For example, some companies pay out 100% of their earnings and get a huge ROI number, while others are stockpiling reserves, buying back shares & investing in new hardware.  That results in some operators building the value of their company, while others pay out all their profits in dividends and will eventually lose value due to rising difficulty.  Personally, while dividends are important, they are only a part of the ROI.  Just something to think about.  I'm glad you rated MergedMining #2, but I wish it were based on actual ROI and not purely dividend payouts.  Something tells me price appreciation shouldn't be ignored and it definitely shouldn't hurt the "yearly performance estimate" ROI number on your analysis due to using the current share price.  You are in effect punishing well run companies and glorifying those with a falling share price.  I think this could probably be remedied fairly easily if you were to set a time frame such as "last 60 days ROI" and showed the dividends + share price appreciation.  

Perhaps another added metric showing ROI based off of the original IPO price would be useful as well and would show how well a company has been run, as opposed to how large they can get their negative cash flow before going under.

I'm glad you took the time to do this and I appreciate it.  Just wanted to give you some feedback before you got too deep into your routine.  I would love to see an accurate ROI number, but I feel you're not taking into account actual ROI and going simply off dividends.  That will result in you rating the most poorly run companies with the highest negative cash flow as having the best ROI when in reality they could be 1 dividend payment away from bankruptcy.

As far as bias, your penalizing of BMMO for lowering their dividend with difficulty is a mistake and should be removed, but I don't see that as bias.  The only bias I see is your bias towards companies that pay 100% of profits to investors through a dividend as that is the only metric you include in your ROI.  You are penalizing those of us trying to grow the value of our company shares and rewarding those with the highest payouts, even though they may not be sustainable.

UPDATE:
Our website MergedMining.bit is now live!

HOW TO BROWSE .BIT DOMAINS

If you have any ideas for the site, or any graphic design skills you want to donate, let me know.


EDIT:
A MergedMining.bit Website Proxy is now available.
(DNS Server w/ .bit Support Not Required, NOTE: Not All Website Features Function Properly In Proxy Site)

Maybe you need your own newsletter?

Will you accept BTC?

UPDATE:
After reading this post I decided to order a BFL Single for MergedMining.  Our order was placed on 2/22/12 to beat the perceived coming rush of orders.  Funds for this order were provided on a temporary credit basis in order to keep the outstanding share count down while we wait for delivery.



The decision to purchase an FPGA miner was voted on by shareholders and passed per the below motion.

A dividend of 5.901 BTC has been paid.

Hence my comment.

I'm sure that is exactly what Mousepotato is looking for.

The market seems to have a "now or never" feel to it at the moment.

Just wanted to address this to avoid spreading misinformation.  I believe the BTC discount that was referred to is the current displayed company holdings of close to $100, 1,000 NMC & 60 BTC.  You also say we have no growth plan, that is untrue.  The company was started with no rig, no money & no mining power of any kind.  We continue to grow by leaps and bounds and are currently raising funds for our next leg of expansion.  I would say our entire plan is a growth plan...  You also assume a 100% dividend payout.  This is most certainly not true.  We use profits for share buybacks, expansion, reserves and upgrading existing equipment.

I have a Diamond 5970 that I'm looking to sell for around $450 shipped anywhere in the US.  If anyone is interested, let me know.  Thank you.

I hesitate to say the number of publicly traded shares has increased because the issued shares count has not changed.  However, the number of shares owned by individual investors has risen due to the company selling off shares to raise funds.  If you take a look at the original post, you can see that MergedMining has raised 50 BTC over the last few weeks for future equipment purchases.  This trend may continue in the short term, but once more equipment is purchased and in place, I plan to start aggressively buying back shares.

A dividend of 5.66 BTC has been paid.

Awesome.  Congratulations!

Just off the top of my head... Linux, Android, Firefox, redhat, MySQL, Apache, Open Office, probably dozens or even hundreds more...