Havelock currently lists 17 stocks, giving 14 unique offerings. Around 6-7 of these are for mining companies, 2 are for banking operations and 1 is for an investment fund into a package of bitcoin startups.
Almost every one of these offerings is doing more for the world of bitcoin than the 4 stocks on MPEx. And none of them funnel money directly into the pocket of the owner of the exchange.
They make their money by collaborating with unscrupulous "CEOs" that IPO outrageously overpriced/inept/incomplete/non-existent/non-tangible ideas that somehow get labeled "assets" (as opposed to liabilities).
Homework assignment: List every Havelock 'asset' that is currently trading above IPO price. The market is trying to tell you something.
Asicminer, HIF, neobee, SFI are all trading at or above ipo. It is nice to have the option to look through multiple real world projects and decide on your own whether to invest or not. And I don't even need to pay 30btc!
You do know that havelock has pretty strict requirements for listing a stock right? Also is there anything tangible regarding mpex?