preferential shares == owned by CPA
That.
I'm assuming that is what you are referring to since it's bolded.
As I said you're mistaken.
Here, I'll walk you through it. It begins with the odd shareholder problem. In the odd shareholder problem, case one assumes an even number of shares (say, 2,000 shares) and an odd number of investors. No matter how you divide the shares some investors will get more shares than others.
Normally it's not a problem however because there are many different assets in a portfolio and you can use smaller per-share-value assets to "make change" if you will.
Now there's 2 basic ways to do this:
1. Give each of the investors an even share of each company, more or less, or
2. Give each shareholder the bulk (or entirety of) one or more companies and then fill in with what's left over (use the smallest value company to make change).
It might not matter to you much when there are only seven investors but when there are seventy or seven hundred things begin to look different. In the case we are discussing the ownership looks like this:
(of BMF): Me and/or CPA: 70%
50-100 other people: 30%
The assets in question look like this:
A single worth ~60 bitcoins
300 shares of X worth 1 bitcoin each,
2000 shares of Y worth 0.05 bitcoins each
5000 shares of whatever else worth maybe 0.1 bitcoins each (for example).
Now, do I want to make your life difficult and transfer your 2,000 shares 50 different ways? No. That would be stupid, and a nightmare for both parties. Why would I do that? No, I will do something like:
a) Give the single and the 5000 shares to CPA/me
b) Give 1000 of the Y to a big investor
c) give chunks of shares to other big investors
d) liquidate smaller positions and give value in bitcoins to the dozen or more remaining small investors
Doing something along these lines makes sense, and is easy.
The second issue you seem to have is that I am paying off CPA's debts before I pay off someone else's. Well thank you Dr. Obvious, what do you expect me to do, wait 6 months before I start paying out claims? I can easily prove my claim on CPA and BMF assets, but random joe on the street cannot do that until I receive the lists from nefario. Handling 2 or 3% of what CPA is owed is no big deal.
Otherwise another issue you will have is YARR, which was created by CPA. Any assets that CPA owned, INCLUDING SHARES OF BMF, will pass to YARR holders as well. This is normal and natural. What do you expect, I put off paying out 5 or 6 bitcoins to YARR shareholders just because I didn't get the CPA shareholders list? That's insane.
What you are witnessing is this:
1. CPA owned shares of BMF.
2. Rather than sell the single and split up the 60 bitcoins in 60 different ways, I just gave it to someone who we owe the almost exact amount of a single +shipping (~65 bitcoins).
3. You will see me do the same in the future. I am trying to find a shareholder I can just give all 2,000 shares of BITCOINRS to, for example. I am not interested in splitting up BITCOINRS 50 different ways and I doubt you would enjoy wading through 50 different GPG signed documents either.
I can't imagine you've thought this though and realize you are asking me to split up BITCOINRS 50 different ways. It just doesn't make sense.