It makes lots of sense if you are selling into the buying frenzy. The divi simply wet the wick, so to speak. Once the buying frenzy began they could have sold hundreds of millions of shares at relatively high prices. If they sold 300,000,000 today (just as an example) at .0085, they would have brought in 2,550,000 in cash to the company. Much more than the divi cost them. Add to that everything from last week and they would have gotten some nice pocket change.