I hate to be a d*ck, but...
I'm trying to decide if it's a bad thing that asicminer will own, at a minimum, just above 4/7 of the company when the IPO was designed as an even split.
Keep this in mind if an issue is brought to the asicminer board about suspending dividends to accumulate capital for R/D.
In a situation like that I'd say, why not just sell those extra 50k shares you decided to keep indefinitely.
It honestly make no odds. Imagine the shares were split exactly 50/50. If Bitfountain all vote for something what would be the odds that EVERY shareholder would vote no? About 0%.
If you don't trust them to act in good faith you shouldn't invest in the first place - it's not like there's some SEC equivalent with any power to do anything is there?
Even if every single shareholder voted, with a 50/50 split bitfountain would only need to hold 1 share of the ones sold on GLBSE to get a majority. So it makes no practical odds as far as voting is concerned that they hold 4/7 instead of 1/2. The single biggest difference not selling those shares makes is that the original 0.1 BTC/share paid gets repaid faster.
And at some point down the line it will almost certainly make sense to suspend or cut-back on dividends to fund growth/R&D -
that's why we bought equity in a company rather than some shitty mining bond/company that will pay out dividends whilst losing value at a faster rate than it pays out.