Have amended thread title - now BMF is approved there's no point addressing LTC-Global Moderators.
Rather than making a new thread I'll just use this one for occasional glimpses of the farce that is usagi attempting to run businesses.
Let's have a look quickly at how usagi set his current price he's trying to offload TU.SILVER at :
[All I can do is create pressure. I can place bids over the ask or try to cool the heat by selling at less than NAV. But that damages the company's finances -- you cannot declare by fiat what other people will pay for your security (see: ART). So to create pressure I decided to pay out close to what we make from trading, which allows investors to set the value of TU.SILVER based on the income it generates. Investors can compare the payment of TU.SILVER to something like BTC-BOND. For example (just for example) if BTC-BOND is worth 0.01 per share and pays approx. 11% a year in interest, then what would TU.SILVER be worth if it paid 10x as much per day as BTC-BOND? And later, if I lower the distribution it will be okay, because investors will recognize that the cash is being used to reinvest into the company. So their value still increases, just via capital gain instead of via distributions.
Well in theory, a payment of 10x per day what BTC-BOND would insinuate that all other things being equal, TU.SILVER would be worth 10x what BTC-BOND is worth. That is why I put up all the shares we had for 0.1. of course I am sure that TU.SILVER is not as "trustworthy" as BTC-BOND, but then again there is real silver backing each share of TU.SILVER, not just an investment position. But the long and short of it is I am simply unwilling to say "TU.SILVER is worth 0.05 per share" because then I get yokels like EskimoBob posting fake spreadsheets telling people I scammed 8,000 BTC. It's not worth the trouble, sorry bro.
There's two things VERY wrong with this approach:
1. Cherry-picking. Why, I wonder, did he happen to pick BTC-BOND to compare with? Could it possibly be that was the lowest paying fixed-rate security he could find? TU.SILVER is listed on Bitfunder - BTC-BOND is listed on BTC-TC. Wouldn't it have been easier to compare with GRAET.LOAN which is conveniently just above TU.SILVER in the securities list on Bitfunder?
Well - it may be easier to get to (same site and all that) - but the problem is it pays rather a higher rate of interest than BTC-BOND (both BTC-BOND and GRAET.LOAN are effectively personal loans). If usagi had compared to that, then he'd have ended up having to value TU.SILVER way lower. Other fixed-rate investments include Coinlender and LTC-ATF.B1 - both paying significantly more than BTC-BOND - but GRAET.LOAN is the obviosu one to compare to IF comparing to a fixed-rate instrument is valid in the first place. WHich leads nicely to the second point.
2. Apples and Oranges. Bonds and funds aren't the same thing. At 0.1 per share, only a small minority of TU.SILVER's price is guaranteed by silver backing, whilst 100% of BTC-BOND and GRAET.LOAN are guaranteed by their issuers. Usagi COULD make a case that those guarantees aren't necessarily credible in all circumstances - but they're still more guaranteed than no guarantee at all.
So not only is Usagi comparing Apples and Oranges (or maybe Apples and a Lemon) but he's deliberately picking the smallest apple to compare to.
That sort of behaviour will, of course, come as no surprise to those familiar with usagi. Historically he's always claimed that BMF outperformed ALL mining stocks. That's a lie (Moore is the easiest example of one it didn't outperform - it paid dividends AND retained full value). And it's also the wrong comparison - he should be comparing to funds.
He still continues to compare BMF to just about anyhting other than other funds. At present he's trying to compare it to PMBs, bonds etc - but not a single fund. Where are the meaningful comparisons - to things like BTCInvest or LTC-ATF? Or the most obvious one of all - to MININGCO.ETF which is a fund investing (like BMF) in mining securities and listed on the same exchange as it? The onbvious answer is that at some level usagi knows that his policy of spewing cash away on overpriced PMBs won't make BMF look good if compared to anything where the manager actually does analysis.
And no usagi - just because 'analysis' has 'anal' in it does NOT mean talking out of your arse is analysis.