I understand that you already have equipment for mining coins. Why do you then conduct an ICO and raise additional funds? And in general, why do you need blockchain?
Thanks for asking!
We have currently over 1,000 miners (mostly GPUs) up and running in our Mining Farm in Calenzano, Italy. See pictures on our Instagram channel
https://www.instagram.com/bitminer_factory/Miners are third party owned, we house and operate them. We decided to launch an ICO to sell a "tokenized Mining Contract" which we called BMF to allow any holder all over the world to benefit from our Mining facilities. The more we build, the larger the economies of scale, the better the financial results.
On the other side of the coin, the token will be liquid as it will be tradable on exchanges or sellable back to us, through our Buy Back Plan. We thought that providing liquidity was a must-do for those investing in our Mining equipment.
Could you please explicity state why your mining activities are confined in Italy and Bosnia only? Based on electricity prices and solar exposure there are other locations which might be more profitable for mining within Europe.
Hi
we are colocating our Mining arams in both countries, Italy and Bosnia, with renewable energy projects, which gives us access to very competitive prices.
Our current prices are 0,145€/kWh in Calenzano (will be 0,11€/kWh very soon) and 0,066€/kWh i Bosnia.
As you can see, Italy is relatively expensive, therefore we plan to run our Alternative Mining Solutions in Italy, i.e. Mining Farms based on FPGA technology which requires much less energy consumption, and move all the other technologies to Bosnia.
Read more on our Alternative Mining Solutions on our Medium Blog.
https://medium.com/@BitminerFactory[moderator's note: consecutive posts merged]