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Economy / Marketplace / Re: Smoky Mountain mining now offering daily dividends to GLBSE investors.
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on: January 22, 2012, 02:39:01 PM
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Bump. Just want to give Bitcoin Swami a final opportunity to maintain his reputation here. @Bitcoin Swami
Are you still buying back shares from shareholders to repay them ?
What do you consider a fair price ? I'm unsure what would be fair given the BTCUSD change, the dividends paid to date and not knowing what return on purchase price you achieved for the company assets.
I'm assuming the share price in BTC should have increased proportionally to the drop in USD value of BTC - but this depends on the BTCUSD exchange rate you achieved when you purchased hardware.
Although my personal loss, assuming I get nothing more than the dividends to date is manageable, I'm mindful of your understandable desire to preserve your reputation following this.
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Economy / Securities / Re: [GLBSE] LIF.A, LIF.B, LIF.CX, and LIF.M
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on: January 22, 2012, 02:21:36 PM
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Wow. Just realised how many investors have ask offers up for less than 0.25 BTC. You guys are incredibly forgiving. With the information that Peter has come forward with thus far and his behaviours to date, I am not accepting anything less than 0.25 BTC / share. My ask offer is up as 20 at 0.25 BTC - I expect Peter to honour it. There is definitely a place for a stock exchange which ensures quality in the assets it lists through far greater verification/validation of asset issuers. Unless GLBSE makes significant improvements in this area, it won't be them taking that place. I have 12 Issues of LIF.CX. Bought them at about 0.496 BTC. Does that mean i have to sell them for 0.075 now and accept 5 BTC loss? At first i thought the whole Bitcoin Issue was a great idea and a revolutionary concept. Now that i'm trying some things out i realized that there are more people trying to steal peoples money than to actually provide some serious and useful services.
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Economy / Securities / Re: [GLBSE] LIF.A, LIF.B, LIF.CX, and LIF.M
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on: January 22, 2012, 02:02:16 PM
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With the information that Peter has come forward with thus far and his behaviours to date, I am not accepting anything less than 0.25 BTC / share. My ask offer is up as 20 at 0.25 BTC - I expect Peter to honour it. There is definitely a place for a stock exchange which ensures quality in the assets it lists through far greater verification/validation of asset issuers. Unless GLBSE makes significant improvements in this area, it won't be them taking that place. I have 12 Issues of LIF.CX. Bought them at about 0.496 BTC. Does that mean i have to sell them for 0.075 now and accept 5 BTC loss? At first i thought the whole Bitcoin Issue was a great idea and a revolutionary concept. Now that i'm trying some things out i realized that there are more people trying to steal peoples money than to actually provide some serious and useful services.
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Economy / Securities / Re: [GLBSE] LIF.A, LIF.B, LIF.CX, and LIF.M
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on: January 19, 2012, 05:03:11 PM
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I have sold my LIF.A shares. Although the losses I have suffered were high in % terms, they are reasonable with regards to what that fund was investing in. With regard to below, personally, over the last 6 or so months, I did see Peter asking the volume and type of questions I would have expected of someone running the sort of investment funds he appears to have been running. I find the removal of such posts, and many others, together with the removal of the blog content and lifunds.com content, unusual to say the least. These are not the behaviours of someone who wishes to remain 100% transparent in their actions. The losses that would be realised from the selling of my shares in LIF.CX to the current bids are unacceptable without a significantly more detailed explanation. Further, I can't be expected to make a fair and reasonable ask offer, without knowing why so much was lost. Not actually, no you didn't just announce it as a scam. You announced that you were getting out of the "biz" and that most of the investments you made were scams because you were not able to liquidate the way you wanted.
Offering now to perhaps, maybe buy some of these now worthless assets back, if you maybe somehow manage to gin together a couple of bitcoins is tantamount to admitting you are a scammer.
Your balance sheets indicated as late as yesterday that the funds controlled thousands of bitcoins when last reported. This was after your claimed sell-off. You have indicated that you were intimately involved in researching every asset, and went so far as publishing a blog detailing your studies (which has since been taken down, interestingly!) Yet you expect us to believe that you just tired of the business and somehow got hoodwinked on 97% of the value of what you claimed?
Lies.
I wonder if you ever even invested in a single share of anything, because the activity histories of the assets on the GLBSE do not match up with your claim of a massive sell off at a loss. I suspect you took a lot of investment in, sat on it and have cashed it out, while trying to cover your theft with this lame nonsense about scammers and ghost bids. I suspect you are behind the USGOLD fraud and the GLBSE fraud shares, and became the mouthpiece of outrage and shock when they had grabbed all you thought you could get.
I call for you to carry a scammer tag until you make good on the losses your dismal management of the LIF Funds generated. What you have stolen from me personally amounts to 45.5 btc when I subtract the liquidation value from the price you were pumping up until minutes before your FUD tease and announcement.
Until 45.5 btc is received at 1yh7GAp2bmGPLbjtkuZR26NCgn5QsnwcN I will continue to call out your theft and criminal activities and demand that you carry a scammer tag. I encourage all other victims of your fraud to keep you in the public's eye.
I trust that the physical address you listed in your investment offering materials will also serve for service of legal documents.
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Economy / Securities / Re: [GLBSE] LIF.A, LIF.B, LIF.CX, and LIF.M
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on: January 19, 2012, 03:51:36 PM
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I don't understand how the LIF.CX fund can go from paying a reasonable dividend one week, and then the following week have lost 90+% of it's value - assuming the current bid orders are Peter's.
@Peter - I would really like an explanation on that.
@Peter - Could you please confirm which of the LIF, LIF.A, LIF.B and LIF.CX bids are yours ?
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Economy / Securities / Re: [GLBSE] LIF.A, LIF.B, LIF.CX, and LIF.M
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on: January 18, 2012, 02:47:47 PM
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Agreed. More explanation is necessary. This is extremely disappointing. It is also unclear whether the current bids for the LIF.A and LIF.CX assets are Peter's. I would like clarification on that from Peter. For personal reasons, I have decided to get out of the bitcoin business. I have put up orders to buy back the outstanding shares of the LIF assets.
Unfortunately, my trading strategy seems to have been flawed, we lost a bunch of money.
I have been selling off the GLBSE assets held by the fund, but it appears many of the buy offers were not real, and I was only able to recover a small amount for the assets held. Many of the GLBSE assets turned out to be scams.
Peter, if you don't give us more explanation than this, isn't it you who turned out to be the scam?
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Economy / Securities / Re: [GLBSE] TyGrr Tech
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on: December 24, 2011, 11:01:09 PM
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That's a failing of the GLBSE system itself. It shouldn't be necessary for those creating a motion to specify the asset it is related to - that information is almost certainly part of the data associated with the motion already. Raise it as a "feature request" with the GLBSE team. Just a little personal pet peeve, if you will indulge me for a moment?
When listing a motion on GLBSE, it is very helpful if you identify the asset under consideration in the motion. I know this one we have been dicusssing and you announced it, but if I had just checked motions without reading this thread... I would be wondering who it was for.
Thanks.
I 100% understand you now. This is all new to me but I will improve. Thank you and Merry Christmas!
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Economy / Marketplace / Re: Optimal Bitcoin Mining Corp. now offering remote GPU use contracts!
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on: December 08, 2011, 12:14:08 AM
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Hi Optimal. You've made a mistake with your sums ... That buy order repaid 36 of my 66 bonds. That leaves 30 remaining. I've put a sell order up for those 30 at the 0.69117647 BTC price. I trust you will be buying these very shortly to conclude our business. Okay, the funding problem has been fixed.
So far 105 bonds were repurchased at 0.69117647 BTC and there is still a buy order outstanding for 36 bonds at this price. Hopefully this will take care of the repurchase of all bonds outstanding.
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Economy / Marketplace / Re: SkepsiDyne Integrated Node - The Bitcoin Mining Company
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on: November 27, 2011, 04:04:09 PM
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@Tiniebras I'm not posting here for your enjoyment. I am posting here because this is the communication channel Tawsix opted to utilise for communication between himself and shareholders. I am "shouting" and "yelling" because Tawsix is refusing to listen to the shareholders. Had I been given the information I have repeatedly requested, which I am fully entitled to as a shareholder faced with the question of whether the company I invested in be liquidated, I may well have voted for liquidation. Unfortunately, due to Tawsix's failings, I wasn't given that opportunity. No reason why that information is being withheld has been given by Tawsix. I just want the figures required to perform an accurate calculation along the lines of what you made in your post below. That is not unreasonable in the slightest. Why should Tawsix ignore shareholders ? Completely speculative post here, but just trying to get the ball rolling. If SIN were to be liquidated, I believe there are 13 rigs to be sold? As I understood it, these cost around $900 at the time of purchase. Accepting devaluation due to the riggs now being second hand, and slightly dated, would it be reasonable to see a return of $450 per rigg? If that were the case, that would mean $5850 dollars. I'm a little unclear as to how many shares are owned and by whom, but I believe that around 2000 shares were sold in the IPO, and so Tawsix should own another 2000? If any of the above is correct that would mean liquidation would result in 5850/4000=$1.46 per share. So that would mean about 0.67 bitcoins per share? Which isn't a horrific loss from the original IPO. Like I said, speculative post to encourage discussion...
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Economy / Marketplace / Re: Optimal Bitcoin Mining Corp. now offering remote GPU use contracts!
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on: November 27, 2011, 02:40:55 PM
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For future reference, GLBSE is currently fully accessible and the depth for OPTIMALBITCOIN asset is as follows ...
ben@ben-laptop2:~/bitcoin_stuff/bmc/black-market-client$ ./bmc.py depth OPTIMALBITCOIN Enter passphrase: bids --:-- [[1, 80000000]] asks --:-- [[3, 89999990], [1, 100000000], [11, 100000000], [10, 100000000], [25, 100000000], [10, 100000000], [54, 100000000], [2, 110000000]]
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Economy / Marketplace / Re: SkepsiDyne Integrated Node - The Bitcoin Mining Company
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on: November 27, 2011, 02:32:07 PM
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WHAT THE FUCK WOULD WE BE SELLING ?!? COMPANY ASSET LIST NOW YOU LAZY SOD !!!!!!! If someone won't do something as simple as show you the hardware after MONTHS .... then there is no hardware.
I understand this, but Tawsix said "We could sell all of our GPUs and buy FPGA boards with the money." So their is hardware to sell. Why don't we sell half of the hardware and buy a small FPGA cluster ? Why not sell all of the GPUs and go full into FPGA mining? We have plenty motherboards for the foreseeable future (at least 4 FPGA boards per motherboard, possibly more, I need to do more research on how one goes about utilizing them.) The page you linked said that they get at least 200 MHash/sec which implies that they can be pushed to do more (not sure what the expense is besides consuming more power, perhaps greater heat output?) If heat output is the issue with these cards we should be sitting well, the cooling system we have in place now would not be hard to adapt to the new boards, if it needed to be adapted at all.
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Economy / Marketplace / Re: SkepsiDyne Integrated Node - The Bitcoin Mining Company
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on: November 26, 2011, 07:51:38 PM
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Do you think Tawsix has the technical competency to operate a FPGA cluster ? Do you think there is sufficient confidence in Tawsix among the current investors in SIN and the wider Bitcoin investment community ? FPGA boards are an even more risky proposition than the GPU mining rigs, given the high risk that Tawsix won't have the long term commitment necessary to run the boards long enough to achieve any reasonable ROI for investors. If Tawsix had proven himself capable of delivering on the promises he made during the IPO - commitment, openness, honesty, transparency, frequent communication, consulting shareholders, reliable payment of dividends, strong returns on investments made by shareholders ... If Tawsix hadn't tried to justify unfair acquisition of shares with bills for items / services he stated would be free ... I wouldn't think twice about further support and investment in him. As it stands, I want ... (1) Secured, shareholder only communication through a suitable medium chosen by Tawsix and notified to shareholders through a "fake motion" on GLBSE (2) Complete list of all company assets (3) Copies of purchase receipts for all company assets showing purchase date and price (4) All company assets liquidated (5) Copies of sale receipts for all company showing sale date and price (6) Proceeds distributed to all legitimate shareholders I don't consider any of that unreasonable. Indeed it is all standard procedure in the winding up of a company. The longer Tawsix takes to complete these, the longer the assets are sat idle earning the shareholders nothing and the less the shareholders get in resale for their assets. Chances are I will then invest my share of the proceeds back into a competitor (who I would expect to be moving to FPGA boards in the short/medium term) who has met their promises to shareholders, showing themselves to be professional and competent. If someone won't do something as simple as show you the hardware after MONTHS .... then there is no hardware.
I understand this, but Tawsix said "We could sell all of our GPUs and buy FPGA boards with the money." So their is hardware to sell. Why don't we sell half of the hardware and buy a small FPGA cluster ?
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Economy / Marketplace / Re: Optimal Bitcoin Mining Corp. now offering remote GPU use contracts!
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on: November 26, 2011, 04:55:27 PM
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@dmcurser
Thanks for bringing this to the attention of myself and the other shareholders. Much appreciated.
@OPTIMALBITCOIN
I'd like a response from you on this. Nefario states in the linked thread on the GLBSE forums that he spoke to you recently. Are you saying that he did not ? Nefario will be able to provide details of when the relevant accounts were accessed. At this stage, it appears you were able to remove the sell order if you wanted to. The costs of your failure to do so should not be beared by those who invested in your endeavour in good faith.
EDIT : with -> who
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Economy / Marketplace / Re: SkepsiDyne Integrated Node - The Bitcoin Mining Company
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on: November 26, 2011, 04:11:56 PM
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I wouldn't trust Tawsix in any further business dealings. He had a chance to prove himself, a second chance, a third chance ... nothing. I'd vote liquidation right now, but I am obviously entitled to know what's being liquidated before I agree to it. Tawsix seems to think dragging this out longer will weaken the resolve of shareholders - I see quite the opposite. I also want to see a list of our hardware (asked for a picture of the rigs 6 months ago) but I'm only trying to break the impasse because this is unsatisfying for all parties. After months of getting nowhere we should do something, brainstorm some ideas together that can work instead of asking the same questions aka doing nothing. The longer we wait selling the hardware, the less it will be worth in value.
Why don't we sell 1 or 2 rigs, and buy with the money a small FPGA cluster ?
And for investors that don't want to be part of this, maybe it's possible to sell rigs to buy back their stocks ?
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Economy / Marketplace / Re: Smoky Mountain mining now offering daily dividends to GLBSE investors.
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on: November 26, 2011, 04:07:14 PM
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@Bitcoin Swami
Are you still buying back shares from shareholders to repay them ?
What do you consider a fair price ? I'm unsure what would be fair given the BTCUSD change, the dividends paid to date and not knowing what return on purchase price you achieved for the company assets.
I'm assuming the share price in BTC should have increased proportionally to the drop in USD value of BTC - but this depends on the BTCUSD exchange rate you achieved when you purchased hardware.
Although my personal loss, assuming I get nothing more than the dividends to date is manageable, I'm mindful of your understandable desire to preserve your reputation following this.
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