You actually didn't HAVE to do anything. You could have kept them. Also, you could have converted them to $12 stakers and sold them when they are available in the marketplace.

And there goes this 500+ page thread 

I did. I'm not usually one to complain, but....
There doesn't seem to be much point in having a blazingly fast network to support Paycoin if every little 200 or 300 hundred XPY withdrawal I try to do from Zencloud has to sit for hours and hours awaiting verification.
#JustSaying

That says 300, not 3000. I gave a possible reason for someone to withdraw without meaning to sell. Again, I don't know if that's what happened, I'm not redacted.

Also, I made a post about gaw's pr and it hasn't got deleted yet: https://hashtalk.org/topic/26170/i-think-gaw-could-have-better-pr/8

I don't think it's binary. They delay on the 29th because they know it's a failure or they release on the 29th because they know it will be a success. GAW has never had a release go smoothly. Give it six months. That's a lifetime in crypto. Just because you have XPY at $20 for a few weeks does not mean things are successful. From a purely economic standpoint, I don't understand how the XPY ecosystem is going to work. There is so much sell pressure building up over at HT that I'm surprised people haven't given themselves strokes. Almost every post is how they are going to sell part of their XPY holdings at $20 on Monday and buy themselves something special. With all that sell pressure, the only way to maintain the price is for GAW to purchase at that price. They have already backed away from that statement. Even if you set aside the short term, I don't understand how the long term works given the extreme inflationary nature of XPY.

The smart ones all took something off the table already and one or two of them even said so, though they didn't scream it from the bell tower. It's called risk mitigation. You get your money back plus a little profit. Whatever you keep on the table is free. If it works out, great. If it doesn't, no loss. Hell, even Redacted moved 3K XPY out. In spite of his posts proclaiming that smart people put all their eggs in one basket and telling people to hold. Why would he move XPY out if, as he says in his posts, people should keep all their eggs in one basket and hold XPY? Oh yeah, then there was that 3K sell order on Cryptsy not long after he got his XPY out. Was it him? Who knows but the trade volume has been so low that it is certainly one hell of a coincidence.

Here's my new script:

> cat archive.sh

sleep 5
curl --data url=$1 https://archive.today/submit/

> cat  gawceo.sh
while true
do
lynx -dump -listonly https://hashtalk.org/user/gawceo |sed  -n -e "s/^.*ps\:\/\///p"> gawceo.txt
while read in; do archive.sh "$in";done<gawceo.txt
sleep 300
done

This waits five minutes between each run, and waits 5 seconds between each request. Hopefully works better. If someone wants to compile a list of people who work for gaw and their usernames, that would be useful, and I'll run it on those.

I wouldn't be surprised if GAW and josh is doing a lot of the dumping when the lemmings are buying.

The way GAW is going I would suggest turning mining back on for XPY and Let people sell and trade it on open markets. Keep there trap shut about 20.00 coin. Let it run at the market value. Use there influence to make a front end for the coin - Wallet debit card. Keep the 1 % from the wallet transactions and 2% from the cards to pay the stakers and be done with it. Probably the smart thing to do and keep the coin running. Also might give it a little legitimacy to run along with bitcoin.

Laugh while you can because you won't be the last one laughing!  

Josh would be absolutely stupid to dump money into XPY to create the $20 or $25 floor ( which is it? ) ... if he did that, everyone would dump their coins and take Joshes money leaving the only coins being held by GAW themselves rendering XPY worthless. I'm sure he knows this; I don't think Josh is that stupid, I could be wrong though.