As I told Ken months ago, I would have been the best choice for PR guy.
Better than any of you, I can fabricate half truths from implications, and truths from half truths. (Although, Crumbs, in spite of his pretensions of being clever, actually has shown how effective he is in spinning gold from flax.)
If Ken has only chosen me instead of that Streets fellow who conveniently disappeared, although, given the difficulty of getting sufficient information from Ken to produce even an adequate PR notice would have tested anyone.
At this point, speculation and suggestions to Ken are here are a supreme waste of time. Although Ken does read this thread, it really seems to hold little influence on him. Speculation, like gossip is fun, but the collateral damage is evident.
Let's forget all that for the moment. Given the price of Bitcoin, as much of the mining hardware to be produced, that is, if the vaporware even becomes hardware, should be used to mine, mine, mine, mine and mine, and not sold. It should only be sold if a) it is no longer profitable to mine and b) if it becomes more profitable to sell the hardware than mine and c) if there is new, faster, more efficient hardware to mine available to replace it.
Focus should be on building machines to mine, except for the machine at a discounted price (ZFastHash 80 - which is no longer) promised to anyone who bought over 100K shares from the original IPO.
Ken needs to delegate tasks. Someone else can transfer shares. Someone else can write nice, fluffy PR to keep away the wolves.
Yes, we all know Ken is a real person, an adult, not a kid like Trade Fortress, not some scammer like LabCoin's behind the scenes person. We all know Ken really DOES want us all to benefit and make money from ActM. Ken's intentions are not in question here, just his method of communication. On the other hand, the original reason for putting pressure on Ken to form an advisory board and to find a PR person was because he works alone and in a silo. In effect, nothing has changed in the way he works. He has been strangely consistent. Or consistently strange. In either case, despite his consistency, Ken has to change and when potential big money is in play, he has to communicate more completely and with greater regularity than he might otherwise previously have been comfortable with. And, I, Lorenzo Money, and prepared to help him with that.
Next.
Eleuthria (the nice fellow who runs BTCGuild) is a great guy, but the Eligius pool run by Luke-jr charges no fees, Luke is helpful and always available and it is easier to see how much is being mined by any particular miner on the Eligius pool than BTCGuild. Ken should use Eligius pool for mining and not any other pool.
http://eligius.st/~gateway/Remember Butterfly Labs? They took a year to get their machines out the door. They were accused of being frauds and a scam. The whole community was angry at them. (Rightfully so) But, they did finally deliver, albeit it, way too late for their miners to be profitable for buyers. It would be sad if Ken finally did come through but so late in the game that it would not matter.
Until that time, Ken really should use help. He needs to learn to delegate responsibility. He has a sort of a community here with some talented people. He needs to trust someone else. He is acting like the typical small entreprneur who thinks he can do it all alone. Let me sign you NDA with eAsic, and let me talk to you once a week and I will write out a PR blurb that we keep most people moderately happy. In our little family here, there are more than a few people with some serious technical skill. You should use them. If you do not have the HR skills to deal with them, let me be project manager, and we can all get this stuff done quicker and make money sooner.
