Sebastian please try not to quote Silverspoon/notlambchop/Crumbs. Most of us have him on ignore and would appreciate not seeing his verbal diarrhea.
@Chef Ramsay, I don't think it's realistic for havelock to reimburse investors. Afaik they don't have any obligation to do so, and I really doubt they could even if they tried. (probably don't even have enough btc to reimburse 1/10th of amhash holders)
Real/regulated exchanges like the NYSE don't reimburse investors when a scam listed on their exchange collapses, so why would havelock?
NYSE entities are covered by law enforcement and SEC regulation, on top of their own regulation that is binding for law enforcement. You have on one hand audits and certain prison for either falsifying data or running away with funds.
Since experience proves that whatever verification Havelock are doing has not provided any protection whatsoever, it would make sense for them to provide some sort of insurance/deposit policy (didn't they take deposit for AMHash? or was it ASICMiner?). In any case I'm very skeptical that it can work now, it just doesn't make sense to put hard BTC into securities without guarantees of transparency and given the track record, no effective supervision. It's more effective to do it in a regular stock market if you are in a sensible jurisdiction.
First it was GLBSE (who BTW scammed FriedCat) and now this.
Effectively it's the same as just launching an informal security scheme here is the forum. So what's the point, other than allowing quick speculation with stocks? Not worth it IMO at the cost of adding an extra layer that may also fail and that will take commission. Formal stock exchanges are not mere brokers with some informal curation of the listed stocks, and that's so for very good reason.