I thought the idea behind bitcoin mining was to get as much hashrate under the control of as many different people as possible to preserve the system. If the people who wish to sell aren't interested in selling to those who aren't already in the system, that's not going to ever happen.
Well, the point is to have them in the hands of trustful people - and i trust myself not do try to do a 51% attack.
Escrow.com not trusted? They were doing escrows for domain names years before bitcoin existed, and have been in the escrow business in the real world since 1998. No offense to JohnK and the other bitcoin escrows, but I'm new to this forum and I'm not about to convert $25-50k us into bitcoins (at significant overhead) just to use their services. If i had funds in Mt. Gox or btc-e already, sure, but to purchase capital? No way.
I'm not saying that escrow.com is not trusted, i'm saying that i don't trust them to handle this kind of business. This is not a domain name transfer. Do we agree with this point?
I understand that putting money into the BTC ecosystem is indeed a problem. You could try to do it off-excanges, like with
TangibleCryptography, that is a very trusted member of this community.
I'm sorry for these problems, and fell free to call me crazy, but i prefer 100BTC mined from the Avalons over 20kUSD anytime, escrow or not, etc.
Sorry for wasting your time.
Did you already sell some shares?
I was contacted before for 22BTC of shares, however he has yet do make the payment, so maybe he changed idea. (he wanted me to lend him money so that he could bid a bigger amount...)