So funny, all weekend I was thinking how controversy is powerful, efficient, entertaining, and CAN be great for a share price in the long run. Even those directly involved should enjoy the excitement as they must learn the most. I had no idea I would be satisfied so quickly. Sorry, this may be controversial in itself but: Wow, what is it going to take to top this?
My perspective is that I'm a value investor. I fully accept the physics that I am not a fortune teller even though it seems easy at times. I have only several outs for selling Bitshares: got to have the money (worst nightmare), something better to invest in (my shares are still in BitShares), rebalance to provide diversification (an insurance policy that costs money but makes since going back to point #1; not a fortune teller). All of this has very little to do with trading on news. So, with this thinking I can withstand controversy and price swings quite well. It has been years of doing this, but I even look forward to it now. It means that there will have to be a better contender and those don't change often. Basically I save a lot of time by not micro managing the investment. I encourage this of everyone I talk to.
This means, I have not had to use bitUSD, GLD, etc.. as a hedge and this make me very happy. Although I'm very much looking forward to using it to exchange assets with merchants. I needs to be in our economy in a big way very soon it is getting vary hard to do things the old way which is just a waste of time and energy...