Dude!  Make him hot coffee and cookies, go say "hi!"

I'm also looking at the large number of freshly mined coins sent to their address.  They have apparently mined 30 or 40 blocks since May.

The web page there says F2Pool.

with perhaps 200 blocks since 2013-05-05

This link also looks like a pool.

Where can I see the queue position?

Quoted for your information.

No beer for you :-)

How can I prove that I don't control that address?

No.

I wish I had my Avalon before now, and I will take actions that I can envision to have my Avalon delivered sooner.

But I have to ask you, what do you hope to accomplish by these posts?

What is plan B?

Current asks:

After I bought the Avalon and started the sale of shares, there has been some interaction between some authorities and various Bitcoin entities.  This has included the closing of bank accounts and lack of access to funds.  I also note without additional interpretation that there were inexplicable DoS attacks on several exchanges just prior to the bank account closings.

Today a posting disclosed that a cease and desist order was delivered from the State of California to The Bitcoin Foundation.  This posting has prompted me to make an announcement in my original auction thread.

I have decided to extend this buy-back so that anyone who has a pessimistic interpretation of events has a chance to back out, no questions asked.

So, similar deal as in post #1.  Send me a PM or post here that you want to sell your shares.  After block 244,687 is mined, whatever that date-time stamp, I will match y'all's lowest buy-back ask against my lowest sufficient buy-back bid, pay your ask amount, retire that (bid, ask, nr of shares) triple, and repeat until no more matches can be made.

Here are the numbers for my 10 bid orders.  I am using an auction to compensate you for the time that your bitcoins have been tied up, but to also give a sense of urgency and price competition.  I am using bid amounts that other people made in a similar auction to set realistic starting values.

I apologize in advance, but I think I have to offer PM to protect privacy to the cautious.  The result of that is there could be swooping bids at the end and not enough time to disclose them.  I don't know any solution to that dilemma.

Two decades ago I attended a professional conference in San Francisco, and afterward I took my daughter to see the museum in the old mint building.  At that time, i was interested in the definition of a hard currency and noted in particular that there were some currencies from Utah on display that were backed by salted pork, and other various currencies, issued by independent banks or businesses.

One of many differing stories tells of a time when the Bank of Hibernia in New Orleans issued a bank note printed in French and English: different people would identify one side or the other as the front.  The French side said "dix" and the economic zone defined wherever this note was freely accepted in trade was Dixie.

It is almost certainly an interesting piece of trivia to anyone interested in Bitcoin to know about the transition from independent banks issuing bank notes to the current centralized situation.

I think that a well researched and widely comprehended understanding of this situation would add valuable perspective to Bitcoin discussions.

How much power?

There is some new opinion that miners may, under some set of circumstances, be considered a Money Service Business (MSB) and require registration.  As a Ph.D. there is absolutely no way I can say oh, I didn't know,  ignore the issue, and expect freedom from trouble.  

One set of opinions is that, when only bitcoin is involved, mining is clearly not a MSB.
Another set of opinions, based on a 2nd FinCEN advisory document, is that any miner may be a MSB.
Informal regulator comments, documented elsewhere in bitcointalk, say that the regulators ultimately intend to classify miners as MSBs regardless of the advisories to date.

I have read the two FinCEN documents that I am aware of, and I find the 2nd document in some contradiction with the 1st.  Especially in view of this contradiction and my lack of specific expertise I think it would be foolish to form and act on my own opinion without receiving expert advice.

In addition, it seems that the bitcoin foundation has recently received a cease and desist order from the State of California.  I don't comprehend any justification whatsoever for this order, but nonetheless the order exists.

I have been careful to keep all transactions, actual and promised, strictly limited to bitcoin and not involve USD or other fiat, and also not to involve other cryptocoins.  In addition, my policy has been to make payments strictly to the bitcoin address that originally paid; I did violate this in a transaction early in the auction, but I think this is self documenting and an isolated incident and not a pattern of behavior.  This further strengthens my defense against a claim of being a money transmitter, a particular category of MSB that is under intense scrutiny in the bitcoin environment.  Our transactions will all be visible on the block-chain so our transparency is high and the transactions cannot be altered.

I have put out feelers to learn the cost of a legal analysis of my specific situation for my Avalon and the relationship to each of you.

You may wish to consider your future preference in the event that I call for you to submit identifying documents signed with your payout address.  

In general, I will conform to any applicable paperwork requirements.  In addition, I will be cautious about making or retaining subversive or seditious comments in this thread.  

In very broad terms, that conformance may consist of

• producing documentation
  
• ceasing operations
• partnering with another entity
  

It is good strategy to plan for the most pessimistic decision pathway.  Along those lines, it is foreseeable that I must collect identifying information and that some shareholders do not provide it in a timely manner.  In this pessimistic scenario, I will not pay dividends to them, and will return the original buy-in amounts to their payment addresses.  This will be a last-ditch & least preferred choice.

My established management style is to take care of situations through good communication, voluntary actions, or natural attrition whenever possible.  The hope is that everyone remains satisfied (Hah! This is Spartica bitcoin).  Toward that end, I again mention the buy-back that was announced in the previous post in this thread.

March 18 item and public commentary.

Thanks.  It was indeed an interesting ride.

I just registered for the altium viewer.
Has anyone made a CadSoft EAGLE version of these documents?

Thanks.  I've now read the entire thread, and deleted my post.

Senior, I notice that you are burdened by a heavy load of gold coins.  Perhaps I can help you with them?