BAKEWELL import complete.
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BAKEWELL support thread here:
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Of the 5916 shares that were in the wild at last count, 5486 were on the GLBSE list.
All of the shareholder claims that were made with me were accounted for on the GLBSE list. Please PM me if you are experiencing difficulty with your claim.
The remaining 430 shares went unclaimed and have been returned to the BAKEWELL treasury.
I will not be placing an ask wall.
I may take advantage of selling into appropriate bids should they arise. I have made the BAKEWELL holdings public, you can see them here:
https://btct.co/portfolio/f7s3Some of you may remember the issues we were working on before the fiasco, we need to have a conversation about how to structure the share sales, etc.
We got ported over on the old contract, but it definitely needs to be tuned up.
Coupleof points on this, to avoid problems down the line:
The unclaimed shares should be transferred to a seperate account on btc.co (this procedure is described in the thread about migrating to btc.co). It's not safe at this stage to assume they'll never be claimed - some may be people who were away, or ones where nefario screwed up, or people who couldn't get the GLBSE 2fa working to register a claim etc. They need to go in a seperate account -so their share of any dividends paid gets held for them. Also, do bear in mind that the shares held for management/growth would need to be adjusted if you ever do return shares to treasury. My recommendation would be that you don't treat any shares as totally unclaimed until the point is reached where nefario stops providing further updates on GLBSE.
Second point is that you really shouldn't be selling any new shares at all - no matter how high the bid - until you've disbursed the back-logged dividend (or voted to apply it to growth). Those funds are due to the investors who held shares whilst GLBSE was down, not to anyone buying new shares now. This is a pretty trivial point really - but basically you have to get finances up to date before selling new shares.
Not sure what you're proposing to do going forward, but my recommendation is that the very first thing you need to do is work out a pretty good valuation of the company's current assets: the hardware presumably now has a lower resale value than you bought it for (exchange-rate change for one thing). Then you need to work out what price shares would sell for NOW if that is what funds were being raised for. That's complicated a bit by the management/growth shares - you'd need to leave those out when calculating value per share (as I assume those wouldn't count for division of assets if there was liquidation). TBH I heartily dislike artifical shares like that - as they pollute valuations and votes plus can be abused if a manager tries to close down and keep a share of company value equal to them, when all they really are is a lazy way of splitting profit and not an equity share.
Reason you need to revalue shares is otherwise if you try to sell at original price then you just won't be able to sell much - as new investors will be being asked to help pay for dividends and losses already received/made by existing investors. That's a problem faced by lots of mining companies - where asset value decreases.