If what you're saying is that these quotes are why the GAW fans got the idea that their buys on paybase translate into buys on the exchanges, then it shows they're seeing what they want to see. After everything that's happened they're still giving Josh the benefit of the doubt, and assuming he'll do what's good for them rather than what's good for him, even when the terms of use say exactly the opposite of what they're assuming.
What do you expect them to think. The posts either insinuate... or outright say they will purchase from the market the coins sold on Paybase.... as in this post that was already known:
http://media.coindesk.com/2015/01/Hash-Talk-4.pngIt specifically says "Plus, all the coins purchased on Paybase will be purchased from the market!"
So how could anyone not see that.
Now, I'm not a blockchain expert, but is the proof offered up in this thread definitive? How does anyone know who owns what wallets and where through that chain of transactions? Suspicious... yes it definitely looks that way just because of the weird halving structure... but is it definitive?
If it's definitive... who will be be brave soul to sacrifice their HT "burner" account to post it first?
You say "it's reasonable to say they would have to go to the exchanges every now and then" but why? The numbers would argue that it's extremely unlikely that they would ever *need* to go to the exchanges. They're not going to run out of premine coins, ever.
It was estimated that 60% went to hashpoint conversions, and 40% to investors. Is GAW one of the investors? You bet. But they had to stake some of their own coins in their prime controllers. Would that account for all of their coins? I don't know. I guess they could also just be selling their newly minted coins from their primes/stakers.