Someone knows where the 15TH/s comes from that are added in the last days? http://blockchain.info/de/charts/hash-rate
Avalon?

Wasnt that up to 50%? And i think there isnt much room for needed investments yet. Because the next batch is paid in full, loans are paid back and so on. Power cost will be hold in but besides that i dont see that another 50% will be needed for reinvestment.

Wrong date: 2013-03-19

Back in 2009 when Satoshi still did personal e-mails to members, it was pretty easy with a tracking pixel to pinpoint where he was at the time even though he used a foreign e-mail server. His Mac was using a plain vanilla e-mail client that would load the pixels from the same place for every message he read from me, so if the search is where was he at the time years ago, I can shed some light on that.

The ~50TH/s batch.

As far as the mining is concerned, that was definitely the work of a 125. A much better idea is to increase the supply of coins proportionately to the transaction volume. This would result in price stability, an important characteristic of a currency which bitcoin currently lacks entirely. Note that the supply of bitcoins could also decrease if the transaction volume shrank. The way it should work is that the network continually adjusts the total supply of coins. Each holder does not hold coin totals, they hold a fraction of the total. So, your fraction never changes, but its valuation does depending on the volume of trades.

Keeping an eye on the competition: BFL chips have arrived in the packaging facility, scheduled for packaging on Wednesday (subject to change).

In other words, they still have a long way to go before their customers can start hashing. I would guess at least another two weeks...

go my dividend.

anyone got estimates on how much asicminer mined? my (very very rough) estimate is ~6000 BTC.

We are currently putting all of our hashpower on btcguild. We will split the hashpower (if/when) other major pools make corresponding adaptions to very large workloads in the next week. We tested on other pools but it seems that they had difficulty setting being a bottleneck for such a flood of hashpower at that time.

The urgent/non-urgent payments (except for 2nd round packaging/PCB/assemly cost) appear to total at around 5200 BTC (or approx. 865k RMB/140k USD).

Looking at the mining stats at BTC Guild, seems like ASICMINER has found 69 blocks so far, estimated mining revenue is then 1725 BTC. (I know I'm not making corrections for fees/PPS - this is just an estimate.) I'm also going to guess that ASICMINER is the "anonymous" miner on Ozcoin who has found 7 blocks, for another 175 BTC. So let's say a total of 1900 BTC so far.

That should put ASICMINER revenue so far at about 35% of the costs given. Assuming a steady hashrate of 3.5 TH/s gives around 480 BTC/day at this difficulty, which mean all these costs should be covered in 7 days from now. Of course, if hashrate increases, like all shareholders are hoping for, the costs should be covered much quicker (12 TH/s gives approx 1600 BTC/day).

Raw milk is illegal to sell in most states.  But still, because the demand is high, farmers still do it.  To get around the laws, they offer ownership "shares" in a cow or similar methods (gifting).  Raw milk is often sold over state lines to avoid the laws in one state to makes the sales in a state that is legal.

Raw milk is one of the biggest black markets in the US.  In fact, it ranks right up there near drugs.  Check out some of the FDA raids on YouTube.

So, the demand is there.  The supply is there.  How do we get the two together legally (or pseudo-legally)?

I'm thinking that because bitcoin is anonymous, a farmer could sell milk online for bitcoins, people purchase it and have some sort of receipt of transaction.  Then, they go to a pick up location, get their milk, and everyone is happy.

Now, because no cash is being exchanged and because bitcoins are anonymous, it might be possible to get around the laws here.  I know that in some states, gifting milk is not illegal and the whole cow "shares" thing is legal in some areas, too (you can drink the raw milk of your own cow).

What do you guys think?  Is there a possible solution here?

After the first 0.1 (the ipo price) they will pay back another investor or stuff like that, after that, you own 1/400000 of the company.

ASICMINER has 200,000 shares in total. Each share gets
1/400,000 of the voting power of, and the regular dividends from, the Bitfountain
IC company registered in China. In addition, before investors of ASICMINER
break even against the IPO price, all net gains from Bitfountain will be paid
to them.

Bitcoins first appeared in 2009 and are closely linked to the global network of computers that supports the currency and its users. Many people generate or "mine" the coins by participating in that network and a growing number of web stores and online firms accept bitcoins as payment.

They have become a very widely used alternative payments system and one bitcoin is currently worth about £17 ($26).

Update

What happened last week:

1. Workshop with sufficient power supply and cables for mining farm settled.
2. Solution of mechanical parts such as heatsinks done and products bulk-ordered.
3. The mass production (second batch) of the chips starts in the fab.
4. The rest 6 wafers finished and in the QC stage.
5. Waiting for all the main boards assembled with chips and components done.

We would like to say that the shareholders of ASICMINER are always in a better place now, than device users. because while  the everlasting free upgrade from providers for users is not possible, all our future products will benefit our shareholders. Thanks to all shareholders for taking the risks with/for us as investors in the beginning of our project. Higher risks are almost always rewarded with higher returns when the risks are eliminated. Now the biggest risks have gone so please expect the enjoying of both short-term and long-term profits of us in the next years. And also thanks for your patience.

The deploying with the whole 12 wafers may take more than two weeks. But everything is progressing well and no exceptions happened. We will make more frequent updates when any new milestones are hit.