TBH, regardless of if Ken delivers in the hardware part of things (also, regardless of his previous strange predictions in his press releases)
reading all this and him being based in the US i wouldn't be surprised if he had many non-technical challenges that are coming his way - lawsuits, sec etc
These accusations are also a bit ridiculous, if people are claiming pump and dump ken would not be setting a price to sell the shares nor announcing that what he is doing, do some of you play the real markets? because CEOs and chair/board members buy and sell massive amounts of shares all the time, If Ken was pumping and dumping wouldnt he want to announce better news than what he said and then crash the price? isnt this what a pump and dump is?
it would be different if ken was accepting money and then paying old investor dividends with new money because then this would be a ponzi scheme but we are buying shares in a mining operation, we know he has guaranteed income, as long as the person running it is trustable the company should in theory do fine
Ken has not lied about anything he has said in the past and if you remember he was so excited to give the news he forgot the avalons were even coming (or he just was short on time), buy or sell do what you will but I guess the bets are set for 3 months to see whose outperforming who, I could care less since I own shares in both AM and AMC,
edit : not attacking superduh just saying in general that seems to be what the claim is or price manipulation but given bitcoins nature you can say the same for every security available,