Our
Indiegogo campaign is over, and here are the stats (combined IndieGogo and Bitcoin contributions)
Total amount raised: $32,156
Total # of units ordered: 700
Total # of t-shirts ordered: 220
Thank you VERY much for your help! Most of the orders came from big obvious places, like USA, UK, Europe, Canada, and Australia, but we've even had orders from as far as Chile, Korea, Turkey, and UAE. Bitcoin is truly global
This amount should help us cover most of the costs of ordering the first mass production run of these devices, which we should be placing some time this week (we'll have a final meeting to finalize things either tomorrow or Wednesday). We plan to order a few thousand units (with funds raised from you, and our own funds), since we already had a few requests from merchants to carry these as well, so there shouldn't be any issues with ordering these as soon as we finish shipping the initial Indiegogo ones. The remaining steps, which will be done at the same time the devices are being made, are:
- Add Litecoin support as an easily configurable setting on the device (Thanks for helping us reach the stretch goal Litecoiners!).
- Finalize software support for creating HD wallet seeds (hopefully just in time for the release of HD wallets in our Android wallet).
- Design packaging materials, such as boxes, inserts with instructions/warnings, etc. We will probably keep these somewhat plain though (we're going for security at lowest price, not flashiness).
- Set up distribution accounts with Amazon in USA, Europe, and Asia, since we'll be using them to fulfill most of the orders.
- Design the t-shirts.
- And, of course, publish the finalized source code and hardware schematics for these devices. In case some software security issues are found, we should have plenty of time to get them fixed before we ship.
Speaking of the t-shirts, we'd like some feedback from you. Do you guys want t-shirts that mention Mycelium Entropy, ones that just mention Mycelium, or ones that just have our logo, but don't specifically advertise the company, with just text that, for example, says "Ad-hoc Economy" on them, so that if you are asked about it you can talk about either Mycelium, or just bitcoin?
Even though Indiegogo contributions are over, we'll leave the BitPay links up for anyone who still wants to order one, and, of course, for anyone who still wants a t-shirt.
