One is "too big to fail" and the other is "too small to be noticed"?

Regarding the share system: If my node does something bad, I'd lose my share(s). How exactly does this work, step by step? Who determines I did something bad, where is the database of shares kept, and how can I be sure noone sabotages me so I lose my shares?

Or, like me, live in a country with slow internet and quotas on bandwidth.

If you live in a democracy where there's more people than bankers, why would it be voted illegal?

I'm writing one.

Name it the Waitlet

Is it possible for a third party to host the bitcoind and blockchain? Your app would not share any keys with it of course, but send signed transactions to it, and use it for getting notifications on balance updates etc.

Just read up on 1099. It's really sad how the US is turning into Europe when it comes to regulation and controls. Worse, in some cases. Not sure how this applies to me as a foreigner - I'll have to ask the broker.

100 shares is just if you want to trade in the glbse asset for the AAPL shares themselves, or the dollar equivalent from me selling them.
As some here have pointed out, by changing to interactive broker I might be able to handle smaller lots (but there'll be more overhead).
And I wouldn't offer them for 100 btc a piece - I'd like to offer at much lower prices so smaller players can participate. So there would be X glbse shares corresponding to 1 AAPL share. Thus you could get on board for a bitcoin or less.
I don't have any other shares currently, but I know of others who are interested and doing similar offerings with other shares, if we can find a working model here.

As for how to do the pricing - it depends on how much interest there is. I'm thinking offering this in portions, so that when I offer N shares they'd all be bought at the same price, and after that the market would be pricing them (using bots, or simply taking a longer perspective - I've held these shares for a long time and haven't cared about price fluctuations, or the USD vs my native currency. Still it's worked out extremely well so far)

Regarding dividends - of course they're going to be puny compared to what's the trend on GLBSE these days. People never bought AAPL for dividend anyway. I just mentioned them because of course, if I sell the stock on GLBSE, the asset holders are the ones entitled to the dividends.  Also, just because I'm offering them now, I might still trade in them later on - I'd just rather trade in bitcoin than usd.

Anyone tried hooking up GPUs og FGPA devices through thunderbolt?

Thing is, I really want to get off the stock market and into bitcoin, which was why I suggested this in the first place. And I thought it'd be interesting to see how a stock like AAPL, which obviously has ups-and-downs would trade on glbse, where people can much smaller trades. I'm wondering what it'd look like - obviously GLBSE has a small volume, and traders who follow the stock closely could probably profit from the "lag" and do quick trades. So could ppl who are long AAPL (if they do well, of course). Maybe the lack of / difficulty of short selling is a problem here?

Thanks, I'll check it out!

What is so far fetched about trading stocks, on a stock exchange?

I'm not American, and thus can't use Sharebuilder afaik. I'm not really a stock trader - I just put some savings in AAPL when they announced the ipod. At the time I was told I could only do lot trades (maybe because of proxy)

This would put GLBSE itself under what regulation? Do they comply?
Anyway, I'm European and live in Asia, so I don't necessarily care about US rules. But if it is a problem for the investors, maybe I should drop it.

Well, I reckoned it'd be one more thing one could buy with bitcoins. Not everyone wants to buy steam codes and diablo items.

I, incidentally, sell torches and pitchforks for bitcoin.

I don't know about your VPS, but mine can't even fit the blockchain anymore.

I'm just probing for now, to figure out how one might structure such a thing, and if it's a good idea or should be dropped.
I happen to own some shares in AAPL. I want to invest in some bitcoin projects, and was planning to sell off some shares and buy coins on an exchange.
However, it struck me that maybe I should issue an asset on GLBSE, backed by the shares.
So, the shares need to be bought/sold in lots of 100. Which is about $58200 currently. That's out of reach for most people. But if I put them on GLBSE, where f.ex.
100 of the glbse asset corresponds to 1 AAPL share - then smaller investors can invest in Apple without needing much capital.
Anyone who accumulates 100 * 100 of the asset can exchange them with me for either ownership of the AAPL stock, or the dollar equivalent from selling the stock.
It could be an interesting asset to see traded, because you'd be speculating on both the AAPL and the dollar vs bitcoin. When AAPL pays dividends, it would be used to purchase bitcoin, which would then be paid out as glbse dividends.

Any thoughts on this model?

What happens if there are no fees on transactions? (Just on deposits / withdrawals or some other mechanism to keep the exchange operating)

What's the reason for the crash in your opinion?
Some people just cashing out, shifts of investments to pirate, increase in difficulty, what?

Interesting thought experiment: People fight fiat printing by simply stopping to accept dollars having higher than a certain serial number.