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Board Securities
Re: [BTC-TC] BTC Growth: Capital Growth via Hedge Fund-Style Investing
by
Esh
on 03/08/2013, 22:30:02 UTC
Greg

This looks very promising. Due diligence aside (still plenty to do as per this prospectus), I'd like to hear back from you about some specific questions that your prospectus leaves unanswered.

1) Why title this a 'Hedge Fund Style' investment rather than an ETF or ATF? As you say, there are several ways in which this fund will not and cannot behave like a hedge fund. Can you try to state concisely and clearly why you conceptualize this fund to be most akin to a hedge fund?

2) In an otherwise very thorough prospectus, your discussion of regulation and taxation seems to me to be underdeveloped. Do you anticipate that it will remain possible to have investors in this fund whose identities are obscured from you by the mechanics of Bitcoin? Will the fund owe the UK government capital gains taxes? Will investors who redeem their shares in the fund owe capital gains taxes to the UK government? Assuming that you launch the fund successfully, it seems safe to assume that you will have at least one American investor. Will the fund therefore be exposed to the regulatory power of the SEC?

3) Will you be paying any expenses by redeeming Bitcoin for fiat, or otherwise exchanging the management fee for fiat? As you say, the redemption of Bitcoin for fiat creates a taxable event under UK law. Will the fund incur any obligations or liabilities as a result of such redemptions, whether on the part of investors who exit the fund or on the part of management?

4) Have you retained legal counsel? If so, can you provide their contact information and/or credentials? If not, do you expect to do so, and if so, when? If the fund has need of legal counsel in the future, how will their services be paid for?