Have you read the thread?
Do I agree with OP's conjecture? No. I don't think it follows from the evidence he presented. Even on as loose speculation it doesn't hold up because OP was not aware that jl777 has been open about his asset ownership and the asset cross ownership and has not made any attempts to hide those facts. It's listed in the superNET OP.
While I take no issues with you doing your own conjecture of the facts, you keep making statements which do nothing but make you foolish. OP wasn't aware? Really? And how do you know this?
Lets check the supernet OP, shall we? Media coverage, tweets, prediction market, after market.....ah yes NextVenture and the core (not cross) assets:
NXTventure
NXTventure is an incubator for revenue producing "companies" and an asset is created to encapsulate each new revenue stream. The NXT that is raised is allocated for this "venture capital" -> offering the asset on NXT AE. Already over 30 million NXT is available for investing. Privatebet is seeking casino game joint ventures for this, but any promising revenue making service is a candidate. More details:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=762346.msg8695499;topicseen#msg8695499Core Assets
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=762346.msg8770928#msg8770928 has more details.
I will put into SuperNET a minimum of 241485 assets (24.15%) for all three core assets:
InstantDEX 241'485 1'000'000 24.15% 49 44.5 (has 30% of NXTventure) = 7.245%
Tradebots 241'485 1'000'000 24.15% 27 20 (has 18.5% JLH) = 4.46%
NXTprivacy 241'485 1'000'000 24.15% 40 39 (has 30% cryptocard + 60% Privatebet) = 7.245% + 14.49%
With 24.15% of each of the above three core assets, there is the following percentage that will be directly or indirectly owned:
InstantDEX 24.15%
Tradebots (NXTcoinsco) 24.15%
NXTprivacy 24.15%
Privatebet 14.49%
cryptocard 7.245%
NXTventure 7.245%
jl777hodl 4.46%
Where does it talk about him about sharkfund0 or jl777hodl's holding? No where.
For people who weren't aware of how James structures his assets it's always good to do your own research before investing in anything. So if this thread caused some people to dive in more and attempt to better understand what they were considering investing in, then I guess it might have done some good.
This I agree to.
Any specific points you feel need to be addressed? There's not much we can say about things like OP speculating that James manipulates the price of his assets by self trading them. There seem to be a fair amount of wealthy individuals buying them on their own in the NXT community so I would say that in general the evidence goes against that. But if someone can come up with some evidence that jl777 is in fact doing that then it would be worth looking in to. But it doesn't really seem like something he would do, or that is even necessary considering how people in the NXT community seem to value his assets currently.
Fair amount of wealthy individuals is it? So why is the 400% return sharkfund0 still with 14% of the fund sold till date? Or rather why the majority of the shareholding is done by the jl777 or his own assets? Its like motorola holding majority of google's share if they were so hot and then claiming oh! google shares are so hot!!
Something he would do? So while you think low of my conjecture (which maybe fair), your "proof" is - it doesn't seem like something he would do? Yep totally an "objective" fact based observer.