I think the simple fact is that the newer shareholders haven't taken the time to properly educate themselves. 

During the last round of hardware sales, AM priced and sold in BTC.  All hardware sales were easily tracked through the blockchain using the addresses that the group sales used to collect money, and it was all traced to AM and their "hardware" wallet.  The "mining" wallet has been known forever. 

Because Bitcoin can move value around the world almost instantaneously, it was quite easy to collect and pay dividends.  There was NEVER the issue of converting (what would seem to be quite a bit of) fiat into BTC.  Yes, the Chinese exchanges have found "workarounds", somehow I don't see Friedcat standing in front of a Bitcoin ATM/"vending machine" with all the cash from hardware sales, nor do I see him wiring the money to the personal bank account of a CEO from a non-transparent exchange.