Sold to me.   

I think the answer is simple. 

1) Goat gets a short time to liquidate operations. 
2) Goat sends Nefario BTC for all the outstanding assets. 
3) Nefario distributes the BTC as a dividend to shareholders.
4) 
5) Profit.

+1

I don't think ASICs will have an effect on BTC price.  The block reward halving will outweigh the effect of coins being produced at a faster rate between difficulty jumps.

I can only speculate right now as to what even happened.  Like I said, don't get me wrong...  Goat runs a "mining company" that doesn't mine, bonds that he can't back with BTC income, & an arbitrage company that as far as I can tell doesn't actually trade...  He deserved to be delisted.  I just worry about the way it happened and how it will effect shareholders.  

I agree.  Don't get me wrong, this move is long overdue.  I'm worried about the precedent it sets though.

The last dividend information was added to the public API last week.  I'm already generating automated statistics using them.

Yes, very much so.  We will be going from our current 5,600MH/s to the ordered ASIC 320,000MH/s.

The $599 FPGA.

I placed another order for a Bitforce Single yesterday.  Hopefully we have it in about 30 days, as it looks like BFL has greatly sped up their delivery times recently.

The one thing I hope this thread accomplishes, is stopping Goat from listing future assets on the GLBSE.

How would that improve liquidity?  That would remove one of the benefits of leaving an open order on the exchange.  I think it would have a negative effect on liquidity and result in more volatility and destabilization of assets.

A dividend of BTC14.3 has been paid.

I've updated the "current price" to say "last price" to remove any confusion.

UPDATE:
Thanks to Nefario adding dividend information to the API, Dividend Yield & P/E Ratio are now completely automated.  I've also added a new automated statistic showing the total number of shares on the market.  In addition to those automated updates, I will be manually updating the newly added Dividends Paid statistic.  When combined with the Coins Mined statistic, shareholders will be able to estimate what the next dividend will be beforehand.

Thanks for adding this Nefario!  You are the man.

This development is concerning.  It reminds me of when someone dug up the pirateat40 check fraud thing long before the default.  People for the most part don't change.  Hopefully legitimate business is more profitable than scamming, or this could spell trouble.

I think we should try and keep the price low for a while longer.  I'm still in accumulation mode.  I currently only share Bitcoin with close friends.  I'll start pitching it to strangers when I'm sitting on 10,000+ of them in my own personal wallet.

I think it was someone who wanted to get into the market and wasn't familiar with it.  He/she probably thought the liquidity was there and they wanted to buy in at that price.  They're most likely now slowly buying in.  The question is, how high will the market go with a 150K injection of new funds?

The market needs a wall of worry to keep climbing.  When everyone else is no longer worried, I get worried.

Nefario,
Any idea when the last dividend paid per share will be added to the public api?  It would make me any my shareholders very happy.