Sounds like everyday of my life since 1992.

If you put them all up at 0.7, will they get 100% of any future dividends while they are waiting to be sold? And these dividends will, of course come back to GBF.

If that's the case, then I think it's a good idea to put them up for sale. I think it could be a while until they sell at that price.

But can you explain more clearly the "Supplemental dividend plan". What you have written on the Bitfunder profile isn't very clear.

What concerns me is that it seems like you will be getting an ASICMINER board seat and hence an ASIC mining unit, if I understand correctly, through selling off our GBF shares. Or am I wrong? Will this benefit GBF, or just you, or just holders of the G.ASICMINER-PT shares?

If you were to distribute our shares amongst GBF shareholders as G.ASICMINER-PT shares, wouldn't we then get any future ASICMINER dividends, plus the "Supplemental dividend", plus of course any profit if we wished to sell our own shares.

Wouldn't this be a much better deal for GBF shareholders?

Great idea strello!   

I for one am not at all bothered about the fraction of a share.

Just round our portions down to the nearest whole number and settle the rest in BTC later.  What's so hard about that?

My main concern is that GBF owns 4,607 ASICMINER shares purchased for BTC0.1 and which now sell for around BTC0.7 on the Bitfunder pass-through.

Let's use G.ASICMINER-PT to free up some of the assets which have been stuck in GBF for a very long time.

Perfect is the enemy of good...

Investors only get paid 100% and the fund manager gets to keep the shares?

IOW, we took the risk, and DT takes the reward?

No effing way!  That really wouldn't be fair to us long suffering GBF investors.

I'm sure there's a better solution, such as in kind dividends:

Who else votes to proportionally distribute the ASICMINER, etc. shares once 100% payout is complete?

I am currently on a open free Wifi and I am not on my normal desktop.
So I can't check the wallet at this moment
I will update you guys once I get back on Sunday, but it should be 100 BTC+
I think that with ASICMINER going so well it's possible that over time we might be able to payback 100% of the balances.
//DeaDTerra

Enjoy your vacation.  Let us know how much BTC you got from ASICMINER when you get the chance.

All our Stratum servers produce Version 2 blocks.  Only getwork is still on v1 (and will always be v1 until they shut down at this point).  ~2/3 of our blocks are produced on Stratum now.  You may have noticed the new site emphasizes stratum over getwork as well.  I won't turn off getwork while there is still demand, but the guides on how to use BTC Guild both use native stratum miners, and give the host as a stratum server in the write-up/screenshots.

Since monetary inflation of bitcoins is still significant (compared to the USD, for example), I thought it'd be useful to look at the inflation-corrected exchange rates. Ideally, I should have included the USD inflation, but I am too tired, and it wouldn't change things much anyway.

I sourced the data from bitcoincharts.com, and corrected each daily VWAP for the number of coins generated up to that date, relative to the number of coins generated up to a fixed, arbitrarily chosen, reference date. Number of coins (monetary base) is projected, not actual, but the two are close enough.

There are two reference dates used in these graphs: April 1 2011 (before the first bubble, and when Gox trade volume just started becoming significant), and January 1 2012 (after the first bubble, during the slow recovery).




The same data in log scale, in case you appreciate it as much as I do:


Bitcoin economy (be it based in speculation, savings, trading, gambling, playing - whatever) has obviously been growing stubbornly. If it were not for monetary inflation since January 2012, one bitcoin would be trading today at about USD 42.

It would be interesting to expand this simple analysis by taking into account old coins that never moved after being generated - lots of these back in 2010 - actual monetary inflation has been even higher if we assume these 2010 frozen coins were actually lost due to low perceived value.
  

Performance Charts now live.  All 3 charts (24h/72h/2wk) are now on one convenient page.

You sure about that?  I just re-read his last announcement post (and haven't seen another since) as all it says is to stop trading during the 28th so it doesn't clash with dividend payments.  I see nothing about the trading platform going online then - and seems I'm not the only one who isn't seeing that anywhere.

Hello!
I will be going away on holiday to Italy,
From Sunday the 24th to Sunday the 3rd.
My internet access will be limited and hence it might take a while for me to answer your pms,posts and emails.
Hence be patient with me,
the best way to contact me is through email at terragubben@gmail.com
Best Regards
//DeaDTerra

Do I need to update if I'm already running 0.8 rc1?