What sort of business would that be? Do you have any experience starting a business?

This issue raises every single red flag I can think of: Unknown issuer, no rep, new to forum, no backing, no details about business, strangely high expected rate of return, strangely high asking amount.

I would not be suprised to see you sell a couple bonds, there are people here who throw money at everything to see what sticks, but I would be suprised if you sell even 10 btc worth.

How about instead of trying to get a loan on GLBSE you try to just ask for a loan in the lending section of the forum?

I hope you mean sodium carbonate, not sodium carbonite which is an explosive!

Are you still sending out samples? I would like to try a bit.

The first thing that came to my mind is there would have to be a limit on the number of tags you could use, possibly based on something like forum rank (like newbies can only add one tag, normal people can add two). I am imagining the most obnoxious people checking every single tag so their drivel will pop up everywhere at once.

The market had a buying and selling subforums long ago, but it was ditched to go to services/goods since people could never figure out which place to put stuff. If there is something you want, start a thread in goods or services or whatever category it goes under.

A large number of transactions can be put into a block. As miners try to solve blocks, they periodically check for new transactions. What this means is if you send out a transaction just before a block is found you will have to wait for the next block, but most transactions do not wait many blocks before getting included.

You can see the queue of transactions waiting to be confirmed, I think, over at blockchain.info or somewhere.

It is becoming less and less imperative that you run a node to use bitcoin, since services are popping up which run bitocin for you.

Yes, as an investor that would be the most enticing option.

For the person who wants the money, why not just use a credit card?

I was reffering to the way your comment reads like an advertisement for your investment fund, which might be off topic?

I was only refering to this comment, your comments to Obsi earlier were just fine from my point of view.

What happens if the BTC/USD rate drops, would that effect the payments at all?

Going around insulting people is not a good way to get them to invest in your fund.

Does forum policy allow posts like this in other peoples threads?

How about an option "It has been undervalued since last June, the price is finally going back to where it should be"?

I am a bit confused about one point here: Clearly you have no intention of paying above 1%, and the recent dividend share history shows you hitting 1%. My question is: it seems you are earning >1% and only paying out 1%, where is the rest of the profit going? Are you taking it, or is the excess profit remaining in the fund to be reinvested as growth, or is it just providing a buffer account for future payouts when the investment makes <1%?

And one other question: It seems there is a limit to the amount of money you can invest in this business (whatever it is), when you get to that limit do you plan to stop selling shares?

Not trying to troll, just trying to help you develope a clearer picture of what your plans are.

I don't think it breaks any of the terms of service. As long as it is legal somewhere he probably lets it slide, and there are certainly countries that do not have as draconian drug laws as the US.

Perhaps instead of calling the company HEMP, you could use somethig like HERB?

I would say bitcoin is a bit more official than satoshi, since it is the name  of the project

What you could do is sign up to be a seller on silk road (and sell innocuous items elsewhere on the internet). Issue a stock on GLBSE to raise capital, then do some trading in hemp. I bet there would be bunches of bitcoiners willing to invest in such a venture if you present it well. Silkroad seems like a place to make a good margin on an investment?

As you say, the number of oustanding coupons, shares, whatever you want to call them, is increasing every time you sell more of them. Is there a limit to the number you will sell? As the total outstanding rises, will that affect the amount you are able to pay in dividends?

Where is the .2% coming from, have you already started pulling in profits?

Transactions are gathered into groups, then they are added as "blocks" to the "blockchain", the database which contains the record of all bitcoin transactions. Any fees associated with any transactions included in the block go to the "miner" who solves the mathematical problem which puts the block into the blockchain. These fees are what keep all the people running computers keeping the system going. Currently there is also a 50 btc reward to solve a block, but that will decrease over time. Essentially, once the transactions are put into a block they become permanent.

Currently bitcoins can be split down to 8 decimals. This unit is unofficially know as a satoshi, thus 1 satoshi = 0.00000001 bitcoin. If nescesarry, in the future the code can be changed to include more decimals.

To mine bitcoins, you have a computer running a program to solve the blocks, thus extending the bitcoin record. Currently there are so many people using such large hardware, and the difficulty adjusts accordingly as established by the program, that it is unprofitable to mine bitcoins unless you have speciallized high powered computing equipment.

You seem to be misunderstanding the velocity of money. Bitcoins can move multiple times, so a person can pay out more than the total number of bitcoins if they are also taking in bitcoins.