Unofficial ASICMINER announcement thread

[ineededausername]

This will be the central repository for friedcat updates.
After each update, responses to/analyses of the update will be taken from the main ASICMINER thread, conglomerated and categorized (bullish reaction, bearish reaction, profit estimates, etc).  They will then be posted in a single, short summary post after the update.

I hope this serves as a more organized shareholder information thread than the main thread.

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[ineededausername]

Wednesday Dividend Update -- 8 May 2013

For the week 1-8 May 2013, the dividend was 0.01108519 BTC per share.

Dividend projections.
As of this moment, ASICMINER is operating 18,530 GH/s of hashpower, which is estimated at current difficulty to produce 5,825 BTC per week, after 10% fees/maintenance, or 0.0145 BTC per share per week.
If ASICMINER continues to grow at minimal rate of 3 TH/s per week, we will see at least 21,530 GH/s of hashpower, or 6,768 BTC next week, which will be 0.0169 BTC per share.
If ASICMINER grows at 7 TH/s per week, the dividend will be approximately 0.02 BTC per share.
If ASICMINER meets top growth rate estimates of 10 TH/s per week, the dividend will be approximately 0.0224 BTC per share.

The latest news up to 8 May 2013.
> 200 TH/s has been ordered for 2-3mo deployment timeframe.
> USB devices fully tested, 10,000 units ready for order at 1.99 BTC each.
> Block Erupter sales have produced an average of 50 BTC per unit, or a total of ~2500 BTC in the latest auction.
> If 10 TH/s is sold as planned in Block Erupter auctions at 50 BTC per 10 GH/s unit, Bitfountain will receive 50000 BTC, which is a healthy 0.125 BTC per share in dividends.
> 50 TH/s is estimated to be fully deployed by June of this year.

[ineededausername]

Thursday weekly update

Directly from friedcat himself:

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A lot of great thing happened last week. We wiped over the obstacles (infrastructure and paperwork) on deploying and put a lot of our available hashrate online. We also did a significant improvement (power, design, appearance) on the USB stick from the sample batch to the production batch.

For the discussion in the last few days, what we... I could say, is only that our IC design team had achieved fantastic results, as everyone could see and compare, with the most limited funds (barely more than 100k$ raised last August) and most inferior mask-set of choice (130nm which belongs to the antiquity era), and I'm proud of it.