Before everyone goes crazy about the Shield/Defense fund, a couple -or three- considerations:
1- The proposed fund, if successful (quite an IF), would have a power acquisition of 200 BTC (assuming 400 blackcoiners would be willing to pony up the proposed 0.5 BTC). Who would this fund benefit? The obvious answer seems to be "The regular investors against the so called "whales", right? and who, exactly, would these "whales" be? Here the answer is not so obvious. But using common sense and the knowledge available to anyone, we have 9 people currently owning each over 1 mill BC. Again using that common sense, we can easily imagine who these 9 people are: The 5 at the top of the list, it's evident, are THE TEAM; the following 4, close family/friends/associates. Now, clever people that they are to have accumulated up to 1200 BTC (value) each, these 9 have a very serious vested interest in keeping the price up, up, up, right? Since they work together/live together, the 9 of then, and since they are very smart people, don't you think that the idea of a "Defense Fund" had been tossed around between them? Of course it has. And, for the 9 of them to start such a fund, with more the 200 BTC (more even than 2,000 BTC) is not only an easy possibility, but actually inconsequential for their holdings... much more considering the obvious "benefits" so many people here see in such an enterprise.
The wouldn't even need the community support to the idea... they would actually have that implemented. Instead, what do we see? that of an initial distribution that could have been 3 mill coins each, only 2 still have them while the other 7 have sold a considerable portion of the initial distribution. Interesting, isn't it? BC is a wildly successful coin by any measure and yet, those who started it, have been selling like mad in some cases. Who are the real "whales" then? From number 3 in the list of wallets to lets say number 50 or even 100, all of the BC-llonaires. Food for thought, isn't it?
2.- Implementing a "Defense fund" seems easy and possible enough, right? Well, if no legal binding documents are drawn, of course it is. But then it isn't a "Defense fund" it is, actually, a "donating fund" whose handler -anonymous as he is-, doesn't have any legal binding obligation to do anything but keep the coins for himself if so he wishes... or a hundred iterations of the same thing whether instantly or overtime or both. Human condition being what it is, this simply would not work.
Conclusion: It is potentially wiser and potentially more effective the idea behind Shield... in part: As a community warning sign for those who voluntarily want to act, to do so. And let me be quite the pessimist here, shield will only benefit those who actually want to sell higher, big and small, NOT the ones than want to see this coin succeed long term. As a matter of fact what Shield is is only a bigger potential version of the proposed "Defense Fund"... paving the way to those 110 (and some others shortly below) BC-llonaires, to unload at higher, more consistent prices, their heavy load of coins.
If this is not true, how come we did not see any of those 109 coming forward last 24 hours investing their already cashed-in proceeds in "defending" against the "whales" that cut the price in half? Well, we did not because THEY were the "whales" unloading some more.
We have to get rid of the tin foil hats and paranoia and use common sense to see what is simply obvious. Those 110 wallet holders (and a couple hundred below them) ARE not just the "whales", they are in fact Blackcoin. And it is simply in their collective hands at this point that the progression of the coin marches forward or peaks and the, when they dump, start the march to the ground. Only 2, at the very top, hadn't succumbed yet to the urge to experiment new riches. 2 months counting, they are holding steady. The third must have have some financial obligations. The next two, probably just wanted new cars/down payment for new homes. And the rest... well unloading, unloading, unloading. Slowly or "whale-sized" (by layman standards). Are we going to contribute, in whatever small size, to make their dumping easier instead of benefit from the effort?
Think about it.