I'd get hung, drawn and quartered if I tried to post this on the advfn website
...Clem Chambers is a sensitive soul!

SUNDAY TIMES December 7, 2008

It has been a turbulent year for On-Line plc, a small investment firm worth 1m. It owns stakes in financial websites ADVFN and All IPO and its shares have tumbled 54% in 12 months.

In a bear market, such a performance does not make On-Line unusual. However, its latest method for motivating staff through incentive schemes that offer them share options is more out of the ordinary.

Because of the collapsing stock market, On-Lines board has repriced 1.39m outstanding share options, some dating back to 2003. Instead of having to see the companys stock rise to 22p, 46p or 25p - the old striking prices of the options - in order to cash in, five senior employees, who dont draw a salary directly from On-Line, only have to help push the share price beyond 20p.

If a director holds options set above the going share price he is said to be under water. Resetting the options at a reduced price can bring him or her back in the money.

The On-Line board felt the company needed to kick itself into gear and wanted the directors to really get going, said Clem Chambers, ADVFNs chief executive and one of the five beneficiaries.

Well, with Bit-Coin having risen from not much to "...$More than anyone could dream" it appears so, and still folks are buying these expensive Dutch bulbs ( Oh dear, it's Yankee-COINS).... Still, if a Bubble looks, smells and.... steer away! I read in the Press recently that WB had suggested back in 2008+ ( when this COIN started ), that is was an illusion . . . but the Reported also suggested our £'s are similar if taken on face-value.... Not being allied to actual Gold ( which itself isn't really "worth" anything-much!).....since QE has devalued our currency-figures, yet we all have the "Same" savings.... that too is an illusion.... he suggested.... I just hope these trousers are seen by Others as I see them....
The technology Blockchain - is interesting as it appears (so-far) no-one has managed to unravel it for the purposes of Fraud.... but that would be the clever thing, wouldn't it? -
=Create a fraud that no-one can see. After all, "Who" would know? When you buy a BitCoin ( or other respected offers ), how do you know you hold it? THAT might be an illusion also. Barge-Poles methinks.
EDIT (13Dec2017)- sp up 50% to 90p.... Wow! someone thinks it's worth it.