Who asked for a handout?  Nobody asked for charity; he was nice enough to offer to exchange the coins that we were led to believe would be available.  But this shouldn't have been necessary.  Their plan guaranteed that this would happen, and there should have been planned measures in place to cover the gap. 

I am still waiting for someone to show me exactly what text was posted in the OP that specifically said that coins not exchanged by a certain time would be lost.  Stuhlman said that there was wording to that effect, but I don't remember seeing it and I suspect that the wording did not actually convey the message as clearly as he intended for it to. 

I don't see anyone claiming that they knew nothing about the transition; I see people who, like myself, didn't read every post in the thread and were led to a misunderstanding about some important details.  This is why the official outlets of information (the OP and website) need to have unambiguous and complete information about such things.  Tweets and crypto articles and posts scattered through this thread are not sufficient by themselves. 

As investors in this enterprise, I can't believe the general indifference to the mishandling of this situation.  Many of you act as if we should be glad that it wasn't a straight-up scam.  Is that really the standard that we should be measuring against?