SD's post mid May20 May 2020 14:26
A good reference post.
The BOD RNS'd that admin costs in 2020 are expected to be lower: My understanding why this will happen in 2020 is:
One off legal and professional fees circa £600K were paid in 2019 (to do with Bixby Issue in May). These are non recurring for 2020.
One off severance costs were paid in 2019 for the switch from a MAS (mining as service) to mining own book strategy with laying off staff with redundant customer facing roles. once again, non recurring in 2020.
BoD Payoff: Bixby got a one off payoff in 2019 so non recurring. No further payouts to be made for ex CFO (Timothy) and ex CEO Edwards in 2020.
MAS 2019 business one off turn around payments in 2019 were made. Once again non recurring for 2020.
So, lots of one off 2019 payments. Non recurring for 2020 so thats why i'd expect admin costs to reduce. The BoD are well aware of investor sentiment on this issue. My view is similar to yours that 2019 was a **** take by the ex Bod. They are now gone though, bag of silver and all that....It's a new bod now, new company for 2020 and not many in the market have worked this out.
Other comments:
BTC mined in April was down to 319 from 338 in March. Note there was 1 less mining day in April compared to March. Difficulty levels explained in RNS.
Fx is a minefield when moving money across CAD,USD,GBP. I believe our 2019 losses here were 50% less than other miners but as you point out 2019 could have been profitable with just a better Fx market alone. 2020 looks better. 2020 looks even better if BTC does its post halving go crazy move upwards again. Add to that the macroeconomic factors associated with the current massive fiat printing and H2 equity market crash and this is looking like a clever place to be IMO.