Who came up with the ties? It has been debated for weeks what the float is - either 576 million or almost 10 times that number. I have claimed several times that the latter is the case. This view has been opposed by people I had the impression were longs. There may have been two reasons. OTCMarket had a stupid mistake claiming that the former was the right number for the float. At the same time it provided a DTC (?) number that was almost 10 times as high. The motivation of the longs was I guess that the lower the float is the wilder the swings in the pps, which is the ideal situation for traders. My impression is therefore that longs are largely repsonsible for the wrong idea about the float. As fas as I remember at least an active basher has stated that the float was more than five million shares. The truth will out I guess.