ASICMiners latest update by representative Friedcat has created a bit of a stir in the bitcoin community, it seems that they will be releasing USB ASIC bitcoin miner devices sometime in the future.

Pictured to the right is the "not-yet-assembled" 300 MH/s mock-up that ASICMiner is proposing to start …

ASICMiner representative Friedcat announced on BitcoinTalk that the first dividend from their monster ASIC bitcoin mining farm has been paid.

In the post (quoted at the end for posterity) Friedcat says that the total dividend for this, the first week of operation is 3860.41091438 BTC, or approximately \$131,253 …

Friedcat has made his weekly update post on BitcoinTalk  and I must confess, I think they are very close to deploying their ASICMiner ASIC bitcoin mining devices.  While it is still unknown exactly how much hashing power they are about to unleash on the bitcoin network form the second image below, it seems that it will be a lot.