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June 13, 2013, 11:52:52 AM
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Funds raised by IPO tier 1: 0

Do you understand that selling your own shares of a company is not raising capital for the company?
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June 13, 2013, 12:07:31 PM
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It seems pretty clear here.......posted before the IPO date......

This is a legitimate question and I'm happy to respond.

As per the prospectus, 10% of the raised funds will be going to a high-profile print media campaign in European gambling/casino publications.  

The amount shown in the prospectus of the "nominal value" (10k btc) will be held and not spent, so that if there is some breech or insolvency it can pay back investors at that promised amount.

The rest goes to me. The vast majority of it I'll be holding as BTC because as you know I love Bitcoin more than anything.  Other than that, I'll be using some of the funds on two other startups I have in mind, but these are secret Smiley  Some money was spent on the new website, but those costs were already paid so this capital won't be going to that specifically.

Basically, I'm trying to bring a fraction of my future earnings of SD into the present as a lump sum.
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June 13, 2013, 12:10:18 PM
Last edit: June 13, 2013, 12:50:05 PM by RationalSpeculator
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Let me step back a bit here.

My last few posts were unprofessional. I apologize for the tone. Having a bad day dealing with government bureaucracy =/

I absolutely should have disclosed that there was a betting pool, and that this pool consisted of the loan from me. The reason I did not was because I figured since there was a liability (the loan) and an asset (the 6100 btc in the wallet) the two cancelled out and needn't be mentioned. Obviously this was retarded of me. Again, I apologize. And I understand why such disclosure is so important even if the asset remains there - for situations like this!

I understand also that as a shareholder, being asked to forgo a month of dividends in order to replenish a fund which you didn't know existed is upsetting. I should have recognized this before I posted.

I'll continue with the last plan I mentioned. My dividends for June will be retained by the site for the betting pool. S.Dice holders will receive dividends as normal. I'm sorry for the drama today, I can see it was largely because of me and how I approached the issue and responded to you guys.

Back to work.

Thank you Erik, I value you taking ownership for the mistake you made.

About the pool, it looks like we will continue to be very dependent on your generosity in case it comes short due to a very unlucky month. Generosity that at any point in the future can be justly denied by you. Say sdice ends up with a loss of 15k btc. And you cannot or do not want to lend those extra funds, then every shareholder will have to provide capital or new shares will have to be issued, otherwise it will go broke. I see a potential big drama unfolding.

Wouldn't it be in the interest of all shareholders to withhold some % of the dividend to build up a stronger capital base, owned by the company? Or is above scenario unrealistic?


(unrelated, if sunnankar is correct there should be still 3450 btc in reserve for a marketing campaign, owned by the company, maybe these funds can be used instead to start building a stronger capital base/pool, owned by the company? that way you solve 2 problems in 1 go)
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June 13, 2013, 12:25:06 PM
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Hello everybody!

I don't want to disturb the main discussion but I think I missed the post with the explanation why There was no SD ividends in 06.06.2013. Well, at least I expected the date to be a date with dividends on bitfunder since the history of dividends paid told me so.
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June 13, 2013, 12:28:06 PM
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Hello everybody!

I don't want to disturb the main discussion but I think I missed the post with the explanation why There was no SD ividends in 06.06.2013. Well, at least I expected the date to be a date with dividends on bitfunder since the history of dividends paid told me so.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=80312.msg2334099#msg2334099
No benefice for Sdice on May soo no dividend...

Lost coins only make everyone else's coins worth slightly more. Think of it as a donation to everyone.
it has lots of buttery taste..
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June 13, 2013, 12:35:59 PM
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Wow, that's unexpected! How about some good news for a change?

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June 13, 2013, 12:45:09 PM
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Wow, that's unexpected! How about some good news for a change?

4000BTC for this month already !! but Erik payback himself for a 6000BTC loan huhuhu

Lost coins only make everyone else's coins worth slightly more. Think of it as a donation to everyone.
it has lots of buttery taste..
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June 13, 2013, 12:46:39 PM
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Thank you very much for the link. If I understand this right SD went slightly down in May but is running pretty good right now B)
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June 13, 2013, 12:47:47 PM
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Wow, that's unexpected! How about some good news for a change?

4000BTC for this month already !! but Erik payback himself for a 6000BTC loan huhuhu
can you explain the loan thing pls or link to a post? Ty
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June 13, 2013, 12:50:42 PM
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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=101902.msg2452138#msg2452138

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it has lots of buttery taste..
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June 13, 2013, 12:52:54 PM
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Ok thanks. I think I have to do my homeworks in this thread Wink
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June 13, 2013, 02:27:58 PM
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Well last months neg profits will eat into this months...So It'd be pretty nice if this month went well.
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June 13, 2013, 03:36:39 PM
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Wow, that's unexpected! How about some good news for a change?

4000BTC for this month already !! but Erik payback himself for a 6000BTC loan huhuhu

The whole profit thing only matters when the money gets put in wallets until then it's speculative.

Also, (harping on this now), it's kind of lame that the disclaimer said that the investors were buying into 10K of BTC equity but instead they bought 10K - 6.2K = 3.8K.

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June 13, 2013, 05:57:05 PM
Last edit: June 13, 2013, 06:10:00 PM by Bugpowder
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Unreal.  The point of an IPO is to provide capital to run a company.

100% of the betting pool must be provided by IPO proceeds.

If not, S.DICE is just another bitcoin scam, albeit a more complex and profitable one than most.

Way to squeeze the last drop out of this lemon, Erik.
Erik was selling off his own shares, not newly issued shares.

There were no shares before the Tier 1 IPO.  I'm talking about the 10M shares that were initially offered when the security was created on MPEX.  I'm not talking about the extra 3M he sold later.  

The initial IPO yielded 35,000 coins. That 100% of those coins should go to enriching the founders, and 0% going to support the company is a pretty gross distribution for an IPO.

Then there is the whole unresolved issue of the mystery bettor that Erik knows, but we don't, that accounted for >50% of the lifetime volume.  We still have no evidence that those bets were not just IPO proceeds being recycled to prop up the share price for a better cashout. 10% loss on the distribution of the 35,000 BTC to shareholders, drive the price to .0075, dump 3M more shares right before the whale runs dry, increasing the total BTC extracted from the community by another 10,000 coins.  When the public appetite for new shares drops and looks unlikely to ever recover without restarting the whale-bot, seize an arbitrary number of coins from future dividends.

I wanted to believe in S.DICE. I DID believe in S.DICE... But after this last move, looks like a death spiral scam from my vantage point.  Other's risk tolerance may vary.

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June 13, 2013, 06:08:03 PM
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Unreal.  The point of an IPO is to provide capital to run a company.

100% of the betting pool must be provided by IPO proceeds.

If not, S.DICE is just another bitcoin scam, albeit a more complex and profitable one than most.

Way to squeeze the last drop out of this lemon, Erik.
Erik was selling off his own shares, not newly issued shares.

There were no shares before the Tier 1 IPO.  I'm talking about the 10M shares that were initially offered when the security was created on MPEX.  I'm not talking about the extra 3M he sold later. 

The initial IPO yielded 35,000 coins. That 100% of those coins should go to enriching the founders, and 0% going to support the company is a pretty gross distribution for an IPO.

Then there is the whole unresolved issue of the mystery bettor that Erik knows, but we don't, that accounted for >50% of the lifetime volume.  We still have no evidence that those bets were not just IPO proceeds being recycled to prop up the share price for a better cashout. 10% loss on the distribution of the 35,000 BTC to shareholders, drive the price to .0075, dump 3M more shares right before the whale runs dry, increase the total BTC extracted from the community.  When the public appetite for new shares drops and looks unlikely to ever recover without restarting the whale-bot, seize an arbitrary number of coins from future dividends.

I wanted to believe in S.DICE. I DID believe in S.DICE... But after this last move, looks like a death spiral scam from my vantage point.  Other's risk tolerance may vary.

Welcome to the dark side!
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June 14, 2013, 01:06:43 AM
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LOL!

First month things seem to be calming down... profits are up... and boom goes Erik with some ridiculous news again.

Ok.

5K for an IT guy.

Nope, now it's 10K.

And the fiat-exchange is calculated whenever you so desire, how convenient.

Oh, and now the US is blocked from playing, because... you know, one day they could get mad at us and that would be bad so to mitigate "bad" why not just block the country!  Why not block ALL the countries?  It's possible that within each national jurisdiction they come after big bad SDICE!

Not done yet!  Let's hire a PR guy/gal to do... PR stuff "what's that?!" you say?  A PR person.  For doing PR things.  Like rehashing things Erik says and informing us of bad news, once per month.  Let's pay this person a bunch of money to make 5 posts/month too!

Lose BTC last month, no dividends, not a big deal.  No ideas being brought forward as to how to address this issue.  Whatevs, just SDICE, guys!

Profits up this month, woooohoo!

Nope, guys, come on, Erik used ~6000BTC of his own BTC to float the betting pool (we have a NET profit of over 70000BTC since dooglus started calculating the finances... and somehow, of that 70000BTC, we don't have enough in the pool all of a sudden?

What a convenient time for a loan pull!

BUT ITS OK.  BECAUSE ERIK'S GOING TO PUT HIS DIVIDENDS IN THE POOL NOW.  OK, so let's get this straight, Erik, you come to us saying you want to take out 6000BTC of your own personal loan... and then say "nevermind, I'll just give you guys that, and make another loan out of my dividends?"

What the flying fuck is going on with this disaster of a company?!?!?!?
There is NO accountability here at all.  It's an unmitigated disaster (if it isn't now, with this leadership, it certainly will be in the future).

Anyone who thinks this ship is heading to shore with Erik at the helm is deluded.

I'm out of this thread for good.  

Good luck investors.
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June 14, 2013, 03:04:15 AM
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Let me step back a bit here.

My last few posts were unprofessional. I apologize for the tone.

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I'll continue with the last plan I mentioned. My dividends for June will be retained by the site for the betting pool. S.Dice holders will receive dividends as normal. I'm sorry for the drama today, I can see it was largely because of me and how I approached the issue and responded to you guys.

I think one of the root causes here is a failure to properly and professionally apply double-entry bookkeeping and standard accounting principles.

I think spending $500-750 per month to have your attorney hire a CPA (that way the CPA's work is protected by attorney client privilege) to do the books for SD would be a great benefit to yourself and for the shareholders. Plus, the Google Doc can be formatted and presented in a much more professional manner. And you should be outsourcing this rather menial work, which you seem to be fairly incompetent at, anyway just like you outsource the programming work, etc.

A second issue would be to raise the BTC pool as it should be large and growing and on the balance sheet anyway. It will be a little tricky to do this and properly apply double-entry bookkeeping principles to be in compliance with the MPEx IPO contract terms but I think it should be possible.

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June 14, 2013, 04:24:30 AM
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Let me step back a bit here.

My last few posts were unprofessional. I apologize for the tone.

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I'll continue with the last plan I mentioned. My dividends for June will be retained by the site for the betting pool. S.Dice holders will receive dividends as normal. I'm sorry for the drama today, I can see it was largely because of me and how I approached the issue and responded to you guys.

I think one of the root causes here is a failure to properly and professionally apply double-entry bookkeeping and standard accounting principles.

I think spending $500-750 per month to have your attorney hire a CPA (that way the CPA's work is protected by attorney client privilege) to do the books for SD would be a great benefit to yourself and for the shareholders. Plus, the Google Doc can be formatted and presented in a much more professional manner. And you should be outsourcing this rather menial work, which you seem to be fairly incompetent at, anyway just like you outsource the programming work, etc.

A second issue would be to raise the BTC pool as it should be large and growing and on the balance sheet anyway. It will be a little tricky to do this and properly apply double-entry bookkeeping principles to be in compliance with the MPEx IPO contract terms but I think it should be possible.

It's over dude. I know you were a believer too. Cash out while you still can.  In bitcoin, if it smells like a scam 100% of the time it is a scam.

I keep trying to figure out alternative explanations for the whale-bot betting patterns, the timing of the secondary sale and now the final cash squeeze. The only thing that makes perfect sense is what I laid out above. IPO recycling. First rule of bitcoin, trust nobody.  Erik has cashed out over $5,000,000 from S.DICE.  He is good at crafting the respectable, reasonable email.  For $5,000,000 I could craft some good ones too.

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June 14, 2013, 08:07:38 AM
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(we have a NET profit of over 70000BTC since dooglus started calculating the finances... and somehow, of that 70000BTC, we don't have enough in the pool all of a sudden?

I'm a few hours behind on this thread, but my reports are from the start of satoshidice, not since I started posting reports.

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June 14, 2013, 08:57:13 AM
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I'd like to buy SD shares. Is there any way to buy them not going through MPOE?

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