I understand the risks of investing. Prices change. My mistake was not considering the possibility that you would intentionally screw your shareholders.
I didn't screw anyone. Screwing shareholders would be a dilution, or running the site into the ground, or lying about something, or falsifying bets, etc. I've talked with many shareholders about this, the vast majority aren't bothered at all, because they know the value of the shares didn't fall just because the price was lower for 12 hours.
The value of a share is the price that you can sell it at.
False. Let's look at Bitcoin itself. I know Bitcoins are worth hundreds or thousands of dollars, because they will change the world. THAT is their value. The fact that the price is only $20 means it's a great time to be accumulating them. When BTC went to $2 in Nov 2011, I knew that wasn't the correct value, and bought more of them. Price =/= value. The entire point of investing, if you're doing it right, is to find things that have a price below their value, buy it, and wait for the rest of the market to realize its mistake.
If you started giving away shares for free, then they would be worthless because nobody would pay anything for them.
False. See above. A share given away for free still earns dividends and thus has value. So in this case price = 0 and value is clearly much higher.
You are justifying your actions by assuming that people will hold their shares forever. Nobody will hold their shares forever. That is absurd.
I'm not assuming that at all. But I am assuming holders know relatively what these shares are worth, and thus when they see more available at a price below market they'll be happy, not upset.
What you are really doing is making people happy at shareholder's expense. Your "opportunity" cost me 40% of my savings.
I didn't cost you anything. If you sold your shares at .0044 then you cost yourself, for selling below proper value. I'm guessing you didnt sell, and the price almost already back to where it was prior, so did I "earn" you 30% today?
You assume that the price will go up. Can you guarantee that?
I don't make that assumption. I simply assume the price will tend towards the proper value-based level.