Topic: 📈 NastyFans: The Bitcoin Enthusiast Fan Club (est. 2012) - page 11. (Read 958972 times)

As an outsider, let me ask a rather simple question - and this is based on my limited understanding of how these seats were set up and are treated.

If the funds used to buy seats had been used to buy BTC - would that equal more than 16.801 BTC?

If not, then the seats have made ROI and are, at some level, profitable. And the seat owners may or may not be happy with the level of ROI.

If there would have been more BTC stored by the seat owners had they just simply purchased BTC directly and held it, then the seats have not yet met ROI and are not profitable. And then the only one that has made any profits is the one selling the seats, unless he has spent the entirety of the cost of the seats on minting the seats, mining equipment and maintaining the mining equipment.


Is that a correct assessment?

 

I only wish one of the hundreds of competitors that have attempted over the years what we’ve accomplished had managed to survive so there was something to compare this organization to. It’s weird that the massive creation of value from nothing is what people complain about. You’d think it was easy to save a million dollars... I’m glad we made it look that way. It’s been one hell of a ride and the journey continues!

In respect to this investment, I would care just as much as I care about it rising in value. Like I said, it's nice BTC is doing what I expected it to do. And if it was falling in value, I'd be disappointed BTC isn't doing what I expected it to do. But you don't get to claim credit, or take blame, for either.

I always expected BTC to eventually go up in USD value from where it was when I spent it here in 2015. I just assumed, as you had stated then, your "cause" was to get "BTC" into the hands of NastyFans. So, yes, my expectation of what would be considered a "ROI" here is going to be in BTC return terms.

Then don't claim a "ROI" of 125% USD return on a BTC investment into a fanclub seat backed by a mining operation which mines BTC. Seems like this is boasting about its success, based on a currency's value going up, which you have no control over.

NastyFans currently has 16.801 BTC and this amount divided by 30,000 seats that are outstanding is 0.00056. I believe there are over a thousand seats that are not owned by anyone, so the actual BTC amount allocated to each seat is higher.

In terms of BTC, NastyFans has not been a good investment. In terms of USD it was a good investment when compared to the stock market.

The seats were on the market for months, and were the lowest offer for months. I had suggested privately that allowing people to post bids for seats would help with price discovery. This is similar to what the newbie posted a few posts up. I do understand the hesitation of taking user deposits to pay for bids.

I haven’t been following the returns on mining investments as of the last several years. I would think the difficulty wouldn’t have gone up as much as it has if miners would have been much better off simply buying bitcoin and holding for 6 years.

If BTC fell in value instead of rose, you would very much care about the USD return. I don’t like to base the success or failure of what I’m doing on whether or not a currency I have no control over goes up or down. NastyFans has exceeded every expectation I ever had for it. If going from a $400 FPGA miner to having a million dollars in BTC within 10 years wasn’t enough growth for you, all I can say is that I’m sorry and I did my best. I will continue to do my best in the hopes that others join me and offer their talents to help make this organization even greater than it already is.

Indeed.  


IMO, it's also unethical to make a [gloating] claim that coins, or seats, have "ROI"'d due to a BTC/USD value increase.

I was not looking for a USD return on a BTC investment which was backed by a mining operation that mines BTC and promised weekly BTC returns.. or "distributions".
But sure, let's start converting it to USD whenever it benefits Og. (/sarcasm)   .. Josh/Inaba/BFL tried this at one point as well ..  

It's definitely nice BTC has done what it was expected to do, but OgNasty doesn't get credit for that. I know I certainly had always been interested in a BTC return with this venture.. but anyway, I digress.

To be fair, I guess this guy seems happy with the USD announcement:


Although, it seems like an odd statement to me when following an announcement about a USD return with these seats/coins.. when you consider if this guy had not kept all 3 of the coins and sold it back for BTC, or even just the seats.. at practically any point in the past.. he'd have a much higher return in USD. So why he's glad he kept them..? *shrug*  To each his own, I guess.    


I'd guess you were told countless times it was impossible because you'll never ROI on what was actually invested, BTC.

"Congrats to all the owners"  
.. More like Congrats to BTC for rising in value and giving Og something to create a false narrative around.

They were listed at a price that was too high. The price was lowered to something reasonable and they sold within a couple days. It isn’t hard to understand. No need to try and twist words to make it something other than exactly what I stated. Price seats reasonably, they will sell.

I’ll even go a step further and say that myself or NastyMining will buy back any amount of seats for 0.0005 BTC per seat and will extend this offer for the next several months.

If the seats you were referring to were listed for several months then, considering your position, it was very unethical to make to this claim:

I agree you should be able to access any BTC you consider yours. If you’re willing to peel the coin to do so, I don’t see any problem with it. It is up to nonnakip to put in the work to make this happen though, and I’m not sure how much time he has for things like that. I did offer to match donations made to him for development a while back to try and entice him to add more developments like this but nobody ever took me up on it. I can only do what I can do. If users wanted to vote to donate a portion of the savings it would likely be possible for many more coins to hit the threshold that way to trigger their distributions.

As for when coins will hit the threshold, every one is different. It depends on a number of factors. Many of the coins have received distributions and all of the distribution data and amounts held under the threshold are all public.



Yes, you had them listed way too high with the rising BTC rate and the market wouldn’t pay that price. You then lowered it down substantially (lower than probably needed) and they sold extremely quickly. That’s how free markets work.

Those seats were actually listed for sale for several months, they sold a few days after being listed at rock bottom prices, below their share of bitcoin that NF has in savings.

Yes, i'd like to be able to access the funds on the coin below the threshold!
With an “optional pending payout”, i know that i'm able to spend the “rewards" whenever i see fit. 



This is a positive suggestion to restore confidence in the investment as a whole and I'd like to hear if there are others who are with me on this one.


Good to know that i'm pessimistic; i'd like to hear your expectation when we'll reach the treshold

You’d want to peel your coin to access below the threshold funds? That seems to me like taking an axe to a Cadillac to try and get the gas inside the gas tank to sell. If there’s demand that wants this I could see looking into it, but it sounds more like a dust attack then a feature to me.

I would agree that there should be options available. Personally, I’d like to see peeled coins “claimed” and have the seat removed from the coin and any pending balances moved to the claimant’s account where they could be distributed that way, but I’m not a capable developer for something like this so I can only make requests same as you.

As for your claim that seats will never reach the payout in our lifetimes, you should refrain from saying things that are not only untrue, but also extremely pessimistic. I would recommend you learn “the secret” as I think it would change your life given your irrational pessimism.

I'd like to propose a vote to optionally payout the pending distributions.

As the distributions will never reach the treshold in our livetimes, the (minted) seats have become a worthless investment. By giving the option to manually make the payout, it suddenly becomes a savings account again. I'm confident that this will be reflected in market-price of seats and appreciation / activity of the club.

Please know that it's only about "giving the option". Due to the size of the club i don't think it will happen very often.
So it can be as easy as an email with a manual approval, bookkeeping entry and transaction on your side.

I don’t think using our funds to manipulate the market is a good thing for anyone and nonnakip has stated he does not want to have fans depositing funds to hold on the site.

The market looks like there’s demand for seats.. There were just a couple hundred seats traded after being listed only a few days. The problem is that sellers are asking more than buyers want to pay. The current lowest priced seat is nearly double the price of the last sale. I would recommend potential sellers list their seats for sale closer to the last sale price if they want them to sell.

I do really really like the idea!

One issue for seat holders is the lack of liquidity in the auctions. There is only a "sell side" but the buy side of the order book is missing.
Regular seat purchases would make the seat market more liquid.

Its like a stock buyback program: good for the remaining seat holders!

What to do with the seats that have been bought back is another question   

Edit: Somebody bought a bunch of seats. I think people were just asking too much before. Looks like at the prices you mention seats will sell pretty quickly.

If this is in BTC, it would be worth a lot more today.

I am curious to hear seat holders' thoughts on a substantial distribution of money we have in savings. I think it is probably fair to say that we are in a bubble right now, and prices for miners are not favorable. By my back-of-the-envelope calculations, we currently have about 0.000536BTC per seat in savings, and seats are not being purchased on the auction at that price, meaning the market is not supporting the value of NastyFans' liquid assets. 

We have terminated seats we could use for the giveaways (if people wanted) so purchasing more for this purpose wouldn't be necessary.



Minted Seats are seats linked to a coin.  When purchasing one a majority of the costs are for the silver content, minting, engraving, address generation, holograms, assembly, design, and shipping.  None of those costs are necessary for online seats, so they are obviously much cheaper and will receive the same share of distributions making them far more likely to have a greater return than their minted counterparts.

If the seats aren't selling at auction, I would say they are priced too high.  The problem here in my opinion is that those who believe in the organization think that seats will be worth far more one day, and those who don't believe think they are worthless.  This is a major gap between buyers and sellers that can only be bridged with time.  We are quickly approaching our 10 years of successful operation date, and at some point I would think all those screaming scam and Ponzi will eventually realize that they are wasting their time attacking an honest organization they should be supporting, while those who believe will continue being rewarded for doing so. 

A buyback doesn't make sense to me at this time.  We want to grow the organization, not shrink it.  A buyback would immediately reduce the member count, and funnel our savings to those who want to abandon the organization instead of help it thrive.  Not what I want to achieve in either case.  A far more likely scenario would be sending our savings to nastyfans to be distributed to all seats, which may occur at some point if our savings continues to grow as it is already beyond what I'd be willing to manage as far as a mining operation. 

Well i were away a lot time, went into nastyfans and i saw i kept getting my shares... whats the differenced between mint seats or just have the seats? Why the value are different? I were about to put my seats for sale... but it looks like no one is trading or buying them... soo i just hope some marketplace or even a buyback happens. I had read there is a big ammount in hands what will be done with that???

Thanks for thinking of minted seat owners; love the idea of minted winners getting proceeds split by minted seats only.