Quote from: lunarboy on February 13, 2015, 07:42:33 AM

Quote from: astronomino on February 13, 2015, 03:28:33 AM

Depending on how this works, there's plenty of reason to buy after people are done dumping.
At the very least, we should expect price to go up once dividends start up again - if you buy at bottom price, you win.
But there might be an even more compelling reason: Lets assume that on March 1st (or whenever) there will be a huge dividend payout for the previous 20 or so days: roughly 0.0001 BTC per 1 unit which currently costs under 0.0008 BTC to buy. That one dividend alone is worth 12.5%. And I'll assume it will be paid in full to whomever owns the shares on March 1st (not split over who owned them in previous days). So it becomes really profitable to buy on that day before dividends. Since many people will expect the huge payout we might see a big buy order queue and a little price bubble that will burst as soon as dividends are paid. Of course it's all speculation, but if it happens like this there's plenty of great opportunities - all of which involve buying/holding in this break period.

That is a big gamble at this point. Who knows if they will reto pay any lost dividends?

I did say it was all speculation.
But since no one in an official capacity (havelock or amhash) has made a statement so far about dividends in this period, there will be plenty of people (myself included) that will hope for the best.
However, if a price bubble happens because people think they will pay the dividends, you can make a big profit on the share price alone and just not wait to find out if they actually pay them or not.