Thanks for the kind mention.  I've now made stop-loss orders for all my ICN.  I really hope they don't fill but today's news is just beyond disappointing.

As a whole, Iconomi's communication just sucks ass.  Today's announcement just seems super sketchy.  Tim doesn't even acknowledge that the plan, this entire time along, was dividends.  They're not even admitting that this is a massive change in position.  

The whitepapers are no longer available on the Iconomi website as far as I can see.

They have a history of not answering simple questions.

Unfortunately, there's a very simple explanation for why their communication is so bad.  It's that they know what they're doing won't stand up to scrutiny, or there are things that they're hiding from us.  It's just really, really disappointing.  I'm still holding out hope though that there's a different explanation altogether.