AM does not need to do so himself. Any big trusted shareholder can issue AM assets with Counterparty.
This is true. It would be awesome to see an Asicminer-direct-share-backed asset issued on Counterparty.
Maybe ThickasThieves would be up for the task?
This would be the first "Bitcoin blue chip" asset on a decentralized exchange. One small step for TAT, one giant leap for Bitcoin securities.
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, or locking them into some silly meta protocol forever. Anyone that's been around for more than a couple months should know by now to just
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