Abstract: Josh Zerlan sold a security named BFLS.RIG to collect pre-order money for a BFL Minirig (meta-fail, I know). He issues shares at .7 btc per and promised investors the profits from the mining machine. Here is the original thread, now locked to prevent the investor anger from being expressed:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/glbse-bflsrig-bfl-hardware-mining-sales-89902The IPO was for .7 btc per share:
IPO share price is going to be .7 BTC per share, although I am taking some limited orders for pre-IPO at .6 per share at the moment.
1+ years of BFL delays, investors became angry. One day without warning Zerlan decided to close the security and made the following statement:
I have paid out the final payment for BFLS shares, everyone should have received .026 BTC per share.
BFLS and it's derivative are now closed permanently. Server, I'm sorry if this upsets you, but it really is the best thing for everyone going forward and nets a tidy profit for everyone who held shares. Each $600 units worth of shares has paid back $759.2 + whatever it's earned over it's lifetime, which is not an insignificant amount and is > 100% profit on the investment. I think that's pretty good for a little over a year, personally.
I bolded what I thought was HorseRider's best argument - that investors were purchasing bitcoin earning machines, not USD debt notes.
WTF, Inaba. We have paid you Bitcoin, not USD. We buy bitcoin earning machines from you, but not a USD debt notes. How can you end the contract without the consensus of the other side. We are supposed to have ASIC mining machines to mine bitcoin for us.
I am going to write the SEC official a letter complaining about this. You have issued the securities without registration and now you have scammed the security holders.
We all know Josh Zerlan's statements are generally devoid of logic, but him taking in .7 btc per share and paying out .026 btc per share and congratulating everyone on a 100%+ profit really takes the tamale for me personally. The thread-lock is cake icing. Don't worry, he's off purchasing more BFL advertising on this forum as we speak & Theymos refuses to curtail this cancer in our industry.