cross posting this here too as I like people to know my view
He is doing that to prevent some angry shareholder from coming after him, no real choice. I wouldn't say investors were treated fairly though. Pretty much every one of them comes out having wasted their time and money. Vorhees is the only one who benefitted from this endeavor.
Not true. From an investor's point of view I do not think it is very reasonable to use the BTC as numeraire due to its lack of capital pools and incredible volatility. Pretty much anyone who bought between April 2012 and March 2013 who have held for the long-term have had
tremendous returns using the USD as numeraire.
It's not all great though. People that bought in March 2013 have payed around 40 million USD for the company, while it was only sold for 30 million USD (mpex shares) when it was announced. That's a loss of -30% in just a few months.
It must hurt even more for those that sold their shares for market price the past months. You can't hardly blame them not to hold for the long term since Erik showed signs of serious neglect towards the business and turnover (in USD) was stagnating and even taking a serious nosedive this month of July. They sold mostly around 20 million USD, taking a loss of -50% in USD from the high in March and a loss of -33% compared to the price payed today.
Considering around 5 millions shares have been sold in the month right before the buyout the above category of people who have USD loss is likely larger than presented here.
Even though Erik negotiated a very good price for mpex holders, this company had much more potential.
