For those of us who are still contemplating on keeping their shares, will IceDrill be doing direct shares since as a US Citizen I cannot keep my shares on Bitfunder after Dec 2nd.
Yes, our handling of direct shares is a necessity and should be considered a given. On Dec 2nd we'll be given a list of bitcoin addresses and their relevant share holdings. Exactly how we'll handle this share transfer will be made crystal clear well before that date (it's a current priority item).
This is good to hear. Do you see it being possible at some point in the future for direct shares to be sold over the counter? If so how exactly would the share holder prove their identity to you? I ask because typically I think people do so by signing a message with the private key of a corresponding public BitCoin address but if we have specified a CoinBase address as our dividend address I don't think we would have that ability and I'm wondering if those of us in that situation shouldn't change out our dividend address before Nov. 1 to one we completely control so we can prove via digital signature we are the owner of the shares associated with the given address.