There's no clear answer why they bother with the rebate. Synth said in last interview that they're using the BTC to finance all the projects that they're working on and that they will stop it eventually and sell hardware straight for skycoins.
GREEN at the horizon! Back in bizzz
Jace Garcia
Jacob Rodriguez
my god
the rebate is another way to do an ico
but the sec will not be impressed
Evan Stewart
Hmm, that actually makes sense, now I get it.
Don't really care about the SEC though since I'm from Europe and strongly believe that all governments will ban all cryptos anyway when they actually start to matter.
Ryan Price
despite the bad PR there is still some life left in the project. plus everyone is freaking out desperate to buy skyminers so they re doing ok on capital