Quote from: hamburgerhelper on December 08, 2013, 06:09:18 PM

I agree that building hashing capacity is important (let's assume that this is why Zach missed the payment yesterday). But I disagree that its so important that it should keep the dividend from being paid out as promised. If it was the case that LRM had 500TH, but dividends were paid out every time the Pope saw Halley's Comet, how many new investors do you think LRM would get?

As you'll notice in his first post about the delay, he mentioned that it might happen today or next week. Dividends delivered a week late should never be an option in his mind. The fact that it is caused me to become alarmed. (Yes, he revised it to today in a later post.)

Again, I completely agree, in principle. But in practice, LRM has paid dividends quite regularly, certainly if I compare it to other Bitcoin securities in which I've had the misfortune of investing. He should definitely strive to be completely consistent, but seeing as this is mostly a one-man operation (and a rapidly expanding one, at that), I don't expect 100% accuracy. I would rather he focused on the hashrate and missed a dividend day here and there. Theoretically he could hire someone to take the load of himself and make things like dividend payments work like clockwork, but that would take money which would decrease the company's profit. So if you want to maximize the value of your bonds, I think a one-man operation that works well most of the time is probably the best compromise you can hope for.