Quote from: Atruk on January 26, 2014, 05:36:13 AM

Quote from: jimmothy on January 26, 2014, 01:52:59 AM

Quote from: Peter Lambert on January 26, 2014, 01:05:55 AM

Quote from: jimmothy on January 24, 2014, 10:30:09 PM

How can a stock with 14,000btc in dividends (and likely to decrease due to increasing value of btc) be worth 1,000,000 btc or about 1/10th of all bitcoins.

Even if mpex became the default stock exchange with a shitload of stocks how can it reach a value of 1/10th all bitcoins?

You do realize that there can be things worth more than all bitcoins, right?

Not if you want to sell it for bitcoins..

Fun fact: asicminer with 200k btc dividends past year is evaluated at 200k btc

mpex.co with 14k in dividends is valued at 1,000k btc

How can a dying company which has less than 1/10th asicminers profits be worth more than 5 times asicminer.

Does that make it 50 times more expensive than asicminer based on dividends alone?

Do you honestly think mpoe will pay out a significant percentage of share price in dividends over the next year or two? My guess is it doesn't even pay out 1% (or 10k btc) in the next year.

Who knows maybe some extremely rich idiots will join and blow a few thousand btc gambling. Doubt it though since the increasing cost of joining is going to exclude potential customers (idiots) from joining.

I have to question your assumptions as to which venture is they dying one and which is the growing one.

I consider the one which had no revenue last quarter besides registration fees to be dieing. (Wasn't asicminer)

The one which is a few months away from releasing an actual product may or may not do well but at least they have a source of revenue other than gamblers and registration fees.

Take a look at these nice graphs http://www.btcalpha.com/mpex/stocks/s-mpoe/