No complicated calculation is involved, it stems directly from the market price - if you buy 1BTC (10 MPBPT shares) worth of bonds quickly, you will pay 0.95 BTC + small bitfunder fee. If you wait till only shares priced @ 0.101 BTC are available, you will have to pay 1.0101BTC - and that 0.0101BTC is exactly the margin. It may be slightly less, depending on your volume on bitfunder.

Then, in the end of January, if MPOE breaks exactly even, you will get 1BTC back.

BitFunder launched "retail" passthrough to MPOE bonds: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=131270.0

BitFunder and CoinBr have launched exclusive offering for one of consistently most profitable bitcoin investments, the MPOE Bonds. To accomodate the nature of this underlying investment, every month the assets will go through three phases:

1. Fundraising
Bond shares will be offered at fixed price of (bond nominal price)+(trader margin). In the end of this phase, initial offer will be withdrawn and raised funds so far will be used to buy MPOE bonds.
2. Free trade
Further trade will be possible only with shares that were bought in step 1.
3. Liquidation
Liquidation process will mirror the liquidation of original bonds, the principal +yield or -loss will be converted to bitcoins. You will be able to invest into other asset for the next month. Between liquidation of a asset for one month and ending of fundraising for next month will be almost 24 hour grace period so you can invest immediately. This short perion is given by original MPOE rules. We are considering the best way for automatically carrying the investment over to the next month , it is likely it will be solved before February offering comes.

The details and dates of these phases are in each asset's description.

CoinBr.MPBPT-O will invest to MPOE bonds for January, March,May, etc..
CoinBr.MPBPT-E will invest to MPOE bonds for February,April,June, etc..

Aaannd..it's gone. Now only 3 million shares from Tier 3 at 0.0037 are left.

Already replied to that, no need to derail this thread again. Please discuss coinbr here. In short - starting with 10BTC investment you can consistently get more in dividends from any stock than pay on coinbr fees. Throw in some rudimentary speculation on price movements, you'll improve even more.

Well then, and how do I "take" or "accept" the GSDPT shares? I will put a message on coinbr "To claim your GSDPT shares to be converted to S.DICE and added to your account, tell so to deadterra" - is that all? How are we going to process such claims? Was just having irc chat with Ukto and it looks there is going to be some mechanism for moving the reinstated GSDPT shares between bitfunder and btct, maybe it can be extended for this use case, too?

With CoinBr account, you buy/sell directly on MPEx, and even get MPEx-signed receipts for all orders. This is something hardly comparable to existing GBLSE/BTCT/Bitfunder passthroughs - perhaps they should call themselves rather funds backed by one MPEx asset, as they trade on separate exchange completely.  

Indeed I can be competitor, as I have said, but I need not to be. CoinBr codebase allows one to create many wonderful things, for example fund managed automatically by bot and it pains me to see such opportunities completely missed and blindly doing the same as before/as everyone else is doing. Of course, I could do it myself, but I don't want to stretch myself too thin, instead focusing on core business.

I don't have very high meaning of passthroughs as they stand currently. Their business model hinges completely upon high barrier of entry to MPEx, they provide no added value in themselves. Plus they add risk in form of another counterparty (passthrough operator plus another exchange - heck, there will be two of them in this case. The more, the merrier, yeah.)

So DeaDTerra, this means the option to exchange the passthrough shares to real S.DICE stock via coinbr.com was silently ignored, without any explanation? You did not even ask me what possible discount/benefits can coinbr provide for the users and just quickly gave in to these who screamed loudest or even offered bribes?
No problem with us, we have no intention to doing business in this typical bitcointalk way. Plus, it leaves us with free hands to provide a plan that will render most of these mpex passthrougs obsolete, should we find out something viable.

There has been quite some head scratching around over the IDIFF futures... so far they look to me like ideal instrument for ASIC suppliers' insider trading

I respectfully disagree. Please make this announcement in a new topic, perhaps in Services subforum

If that were just some fringe incidents, okay. But I have got an impression that many in the "community" indeed have irresistible urge to crack such really unhelpful jokes or comments, and are condoned by others. Believe it or not, doing business is best done by well dressed and prepared approach, everyone knows how it goes about first impression. Otherwise, why waste time with them? Showing them we have bigger dick, or such?

Indeed keeping track of MPEx account accurately can be PITA, but the platform for taking pain off it exists already, and we are open to cooperate and develop customized solution

For end-users of our brokerage I'm glad to announce that MPEx futures are already supported.

Upon explaining that mpoe loss ... Maybe there's indeed some room for improvement, looks like nothing is going to stop bondholders to increase requested interest and thus they prevent any MPOE profit (to be paid to shareholders). The competition on interest rate is ineffective, as bondholders seems to calculate that they won't get whole interest anyway.
Maybe bondholder with lower asked interest should be rewarded by lower risk (allocate lesser part of loss to him)?

I'll retry on this from another angle. The number you decided to fixate yourself so much on is there only because bondholders asked for over 9% interest. So it alone doesn't change much on the soundness of the core MPOE business. Had the bondholders asked for 5% (like it went few months ago), the capital expenses would be only 2062 BTC and there would be some profit in the end.

Running nodes does not make anything itself. You just get the advantage that your transactions propagate faster the more connections you have (helpful if you play satoshidice, for example) and it also helps with verification and propagation of all transactions in the network.

If you did your research, you'd have seen that the 433BTC is not everything there is at all. They paid up to 9.9% monthly interest ( 4`083.99552 BTC ) to the bondholders who financed the options market. But they also took the MPOE loss, so the net revenue for bondholders was actually lower 4083-1961 = 2122 BTC. That's ~ 25k USD just in one month. All considered, together with future potential, millions of USD valuation really isn't much of a stretch.

If you have so much unused capacity, you can support other projects, too. For example litecoin comes to mind, as it will be easy for you since it's basically a bitcoin fork and is being used in the same way. Maybe even Tor or Freenet, but they are more risky (depending on local law enforcement).

Not much difference. Only that I consider common decency for rants from irc to not be used as kinda evidence elsewhere. But that's my own fault I started them at all.

If you plan to host anything else important on the metal, keep close eye on disk I/O. Upcoming bitcoind version solves this, but the stable 0.7.1 is really a disk hog and can cause inconvenient delays elsewhere. Even on decent 7200rpm disk, I can't play FLACs and run bitcoind at once, ionice nor libeatmydata doesn't help much.

Yes bitcoind runs fine without parameters, or package for your distro with ready to use initscript can be found (check version though, 0.6.2 from debian repo is very old).

As for mining, I doubt the servers have OpenCL capable graphics.

I vouch for eastern europe, too. While living from 750 euros monthly is not exactly about lying on the beach whole day and getting all inclusive full service, it's still pretty cosy here in Slovakia. Farther to the east you go, the better. We are no third world countries, most things work as expected (don't expect fake smiles everywhere, though) and internet is fast and uncensored (I have unlimited 10mbit both download and upload for 12 euro/month, could easily get 100 mbit for few bucks more if desired).

I just repaid. Thanks again!