Quite a compelling argument you've got going there.

Because "investing" in your "gambling related business" is itself more of a gamble than depositing any coins into something with "dice" in its name.

Share price helps "the company" in EXACTLY one way: they can demand a higher price when they dilute everyone's shares by offering another round of financing. There is NO other reason for a dividend-paying bitcoin company to care one bit about the market price. It's not like there is risk for hostile takeovers, because "shareholders" don't really have any real power in these things as it is - and it won't affect any future 3rd party buyout talks, because that always involves book value and future cash flow multiples.

So, if you are concerned about the share price for the sake of the company, stop it. It shouldn't matter to them at all - if it does matter to them, then you need to realize they are gunning for another round of funding. If, on the other hand, you're concerned about the share price for your own sake, just say so - there's no shame in that.

AT&T is rather notorious for dual-caching DNS in multiple layers, which can result in doubling (or worse) the propagation times that most of the rest of the internet experiences when a DNS change happens. If the old TTL setting was long, then AT&T is going to take quite a while to get it right. I see that the new TTL is nice and short, so in the future this should be much less of an issue. (Unless they override short TTLs, which is stupid, but I wouldn't put it past them.)

Years ago, I ran across a DNS server with a 2 week TTL setting for a mail host. I would have fired the guy who did that, personally.

That's obviously an issue with DNS propagation. Be patient.

The obvious answer is that some people are not convinced they will hit their deadline. It's not a large number; volume is very low.

the solution to the exchange rate issue is volume - unless a lot more people start exchanging between BTC and [name your fiat], the exchange rate will fluctuate wildly with minimal effort from large orders. (It doesn't matter which fiat, really, since they all have existing relationships presently through Forex. Higher trade volume with BTC<->EUR is just as good as BTC<->USD when trying to peg a more stable bitcoin value.) Volume creates liquidity, which creates a much more stable valuation. Yeah, these guys might be subject to more risk now than they would if they started this up later, but someone's got to be first... and with risk comes a greater potential for reward. Someone has to have the balls to try it first, and good for them to try and tackle this with regulatory oversight.

On a not entirely different note, what would the effect be if they decided to hold everything in Euros (meaning convert almost all BTC to Euro for the purpose of holding deposits, keeping only enough BTC on hand to cover an average day's worth of BTC transactions) and converting back to BTC only when they sell the BTC?

Incomplete news would result in only more speculation. News will come when it's ready. If you're bullish on this, I recommend keeping some dry powder on the sidelines - the natives seem restless.

more or less, yep.

Bicentennial = 200 years (two centennials, or two one-hundred years)
Semicentennial = 50-year anniversary (Oklahoma celebrated this for their statehood in 1957)
Biannual = 2 years, like some obscure races (human powered submarine, for one)
Semiannual = every 6 months (see your local discount furniture store sales for examples)
Bimonthly = every 2 months (like your girlfriend's period in Jr. high school)
Semimonthly = every half a month (many employers use this to ensure exactly 24 pay periods)
Biweekly = every 2 weeks (many other employers pay on this schedule for 26 pay periods per year)
Semiweekly = twice per week (some Ye Olde Tyme newspapers did this a lot, as news wasn't all that easy to come by for a daily paper back then)

I can't believe I'm contributing to this. Hopefully it dies here.

edit: (oopsie on cut and paste when moving lines around)

I was just politely poking at the apostrophe I knew what you meant, and didn't want to come across as an asshole, but when I posted that, I was pretty much up to my hat in reading misplaced apostrophes and predictions of people "loosing" their money that I was compelled by my frustrations to vent a little before popping a cork. I love the description of he-who-pretends-to-be-a-she-and-who-must-not-be-named-because-then-I-might-accidentally-be-tricked-into-reading-his-I-mean-her-self-fellating-I-mean-cunnilinguing-drivel-in-a-quoted-context. Made me smile.

No, it doesn't. It means he hadn't replied. That's all it means. Nothing more. You can infer all the reasons possible for the lack of response that you want, but it doesn't make your inference the truth.

I tried to graph out the timeline on that movie but got bored and quit about halfway through. It was interesting, but predictable.

Your expectation of instant replies mirrors the unrealistic expectations of a lot of bitcoin investors looking for weekly updates from their IPO-of-the-month.

I don't know the guy, but maybe he's a football fan? Maybe he has kids and he took them to Six Flags or something? Maybe he has better things to do than hit F5 all day here? There are times when I don't come here for a week at a time because I have no interest in finding new news. A lack of response does not indicate a refusal to respond.

Just make your point and wait. If you don't get a reply, consider your point either 1.) ceded because your argument was insurmountable, or 2.) inadequately made and therefore ignored as not worth replying to. But don't just keep demanding answers, it rings of shallowness and immaturity.

...the troll's what?

To be fair, the "we don't know" part was referencing the "only if AM is successful..." part, not the value.

/objective reading

There is no practical difference between sending an anonymous person on the internet "confidential" materials and posting it online for all to see. Trust of non disclosure is a prerequisite for confidential transactions, and unless you know the person you're dealing with, you have no expectation of non disclosure. Then again, if you already knew the person you're going to end up dealing with, you wouldn't have to post publicly asking for everyone to chip in - so either you have no personal friends with sufficient funds to lend to you whom you can trust (or who trust you), or you are trusting strangers to keep your secret from other strangers without compensation. As it was already stated, it only takes one person asking you for more details before it's "public" when they decide to just repost it here.

Might as well get it all out in the open now.

So... you're against empirical A/B testing, you just wanna go with your gut? Cool, whatever. My suggestion was simple and motivated by a desire to help out. Your monologue was detractive and only tangentially related, although I'm sure your intent was not entirely self aggrandizing. But thanks for the insight, I'm sure it will be useful after empirical tests. Or, hell, come up with slogany things that take more than two seconds to come up with (like my off-the-cuff suggestion of "99% player odds", which you took the time to base an argument on, but I already suggested was only a shot in the dark), and test those, too - after all, it's evidence of success versus known alternatives that matters.

That is, if anyone wants to actually test results. Which is all I suggested in the first place.

Your effort in getting the site operational is not worth 40,000BTC.

I'll pass.

Remember, this was the sample chip run. Perhaps they're working with the "worst case" scenario to test the limits of the chip without proper cooling? (I dunno, devil's advocate, etc.)

But this whole discussion is why I keep coming back here, despite all the other noise.  Thanks, guys.