Seriously, though, this bond won't see the kind of massive profits I have aimed at in the past. I have very limited objectives this time (c. 10bil a month); just enough to cover interest, plexes and ships to lose, plus a little extra on the side. The strategy I'm following could yield about 4-5bil a day ...

Why would they find that odd? The strategy could yield 120-150bil a month ...

Because to make the isk in a week I first have to have the bond. And just because the strategy can earn enough to make that isk in a week doesn't mean that I am going to grind for six to eight hours a day when I neither need to nor want to.

A few other things to bear in mind:

Firstly, I didn't mention what returns the strategy could potentially produce until after the bond was filled, so the bond wasn't sold on the basis of those profit levels (indeed, I wasn't really sure about potential maximum profit levels until after I had received some isk and had played around with the plan a little bit). Rather, as the OP states, my objective is to earn 10bil a month and the bond was filled by people expecting those actual returns, not larger merely potential returns that will never materialise.

Secondly, since I have a documented history of producing similar profit levels in the past (not quite as high but pretty close), I don't see why anyone would be particularly sceptical about my ability to do so in the present.

Thirdly, as I mention in the OP, I am being assisted in the current plan by Rykker Bow's encyclopedic knowledge of Jita trading and he has a documented history of hitting exactly such profit levels in the past (the coincidence of the potential profit levels I mention and his historical profit levels is ... well ... not a coincidence).

I suspect the lack of suspicion directed towards this bond is also partly due to the fact that I have held greater public debt in the past and that this level of borrowing represents a decrease rather than an increase in potential risk levels.

I don't 'make 120-150bil a month'. Please stop making claims on my behalf and then acting as if it was me who made them.

The strategy I'm following could yield about 4-5bil a day ...

Why would they find that odd? The strategy could yield 120-150bil a month ...

Wow - you manage to combine maliciousness and deceit with a deep-seated stupidity at the same time. That's a pretty impressive set of negative qualities you are displaying.

Yes. YOU extrapolated a claim ...

You forgot to say, that in all these years he never accepted to be audited once.

This lack of transparency, considering the hundreds of investor billions held for so many years, does not really entitle to go count the beans in somebody else's home.

Flakeys is quite right. There should be questions and I shouldn't get a free pass because of my background. One of the biggest dangers the investment market has suffered from in the past is a lack of oversight and an unwillingness to challenge the Old Guard. I don't even have a problem with Block doing the challenging or asking the questions, despite knowing that this comes from an old grudge rather than any real concern for the investment.

The issue I have with his posts in this thread is a) that they attempt to indirectly insinuate things without having the courage to actually say what he means, and b) that when we do get to the bottom of what he means, most of it just doesn't make any sense (by which I mean that it is devoid of logic). I should have become used to this by now as Block is pretty notorious for being unable to string two thoughts together coherently in a post but I'm afraid I let my anger get the best of me last night and responded to his posts in a way that gave them greater credence than they deserved.

In short, scrutiny is just as important on large bonds raised by experienced people as it is on small bonds raised by the inexperienced.

I didn't like your comments because they didn't make sense. You have serious problems with logic and language that make it extremely frustrating to communicate with you. Unfortunately, my frustration at dealing with irrational statements got the better of me last night and I made the mistake of trying to point out the errors in your thinking to you. I won't waste my time doing that again because you don't seem willing to learn.

As to the audit, please stop trolling Block. Why would I give my api to someone with a history of deceitful behaviour and an obvious grudge against me? Oh, and someone who has spent his career trying to avoid audits by claiming that audits are of no use?

Of course I won't. You have a documented history of public deception, you have deliberately misrepresented me in this thread, and you are not a very rationally competent individual. I have no idea why you would even begin to think that I would allow you to carry out an audit. It's a ridiculous request and can only be classified as trolling.