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"You say this, but the div, both interim and final have been static since 2017."

All of BT's publications say the dividend is progressive for this year, so I'm expecting some sort of increase over last years Final Dividend, so higher than 5.39p. We'll probably find out on the 18th May.

Why's that, do you think it'll go up significantly from here?

The only reason I say that, is because you've made it obvious in previous posts that you don't like the company, so I'm guessing you're disappointed that the price may be on the way up.

Looks as though the London South East software update has caused message history to show in GMT rather than Local Time.

Bitcoin live price seems to be working ok today:

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/BTC-usd

As do the European Indexes:

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/DAX:INDEXDB?comparison=INDEXEURO%3APX1%2CINDEXBIT%3AFTSEMIB%2CINDEXBME%3AINDI

"Has anyone else lost Google live share prices"

Where are you looking? Everything looked OK to me on Friday, apart from a gap in QBT's data; Today's a Bank Holiday in the UK, so you wont see live UK price updates until tomorrow now.

Looks as though London South East have deleted all the Crypto chat pages, even the messages in my history have disappeared.

Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H1ld5BBDGk

Why would a consolidation make a difference, if the dividend was increased to take account of the reduction in stock? If the dividend is increased relative to the consolidation, it wouldn't make a difference to current shareholder finances.

Personally, it wouldn't bother if they used buybacks to get down to 60 Billion shares, then consolidating down to 20 Billion shares and multiplying the dividend by 3. A higher price per share would reduce volatility, and in my opinion preferable to being a sub £1 stock.

https://bitcoinist.com/bitcoin-liquidity-shrinks-462-btc-move-price/

"Market data provider Material Indicators shared a chart yesterday showing that Bitcoin whales are currently forced to split their large buy and sell orders into smaller orders due to high slippage resulting from low liquidity."

The Whales could drive the price up by trading amongst themselves, but without new money coming in all they'll succeed in doing is locking themselves in even more than they already are. If liquidity is low at 29k it'll only get lower as the price climbs. Bitcoin is stalling half way up a mountain and running out of food and water, the most likely route is down.

"BTC is $29.5k "

BTC is being traded up by some large holders to keep it around 30k, in the hope that retail will buy into the hype and take it higher again. The volumes are pitifully low and retail appear to be shunning the token, and probably Crypto in general, so as things stand BTC is treading water and will eventually sink if the community can't stoke general enthusiasm. My daughters partner got burned by BTC, he takes my point of view now and doesn't have a good word to say about it.

I've mentioned, on many occasions that I regularly check in on this QBT chat. My only vested interest is an interest in the future of Crypto, and an interest in observing the success or failure of QBT's technology.

PAS your desperation is palpable, certainly more tangible than Bitcoin lol.

I checked the stocks I'm invested in and also checked ARB as it's also an AIM stock. I didn't post what I'd checked, just like you didn't post the specific stock you claim had the same proble. Pot, Kettle, Black.

PAS, the data stopped updating. You obviously don't check RNS's, since trading can be suspended for any number of reasons unrelated to the health of the company.

For example:

https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/QBT/suspension-of-trading-on-aim/15586728

https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/market-news/suspension-quantum-blockchain-technologies-plc/15586733

Just updated now with the last trade:

05.05.23 16:11:30 1.50 GBX 332,116 4,991.70 Off-Book

All the sites I've looked at show this as the last trade:

05.05.23 14:18:12 1.50 GBX 934 14.01 Off-Book

My AdBlocker won't allow me to use the site and I'm always dubious about allowing cookies from sites who want to store data on my machine. Are they showing more recent trades?

Data stopped for QBT at 2:18pm, tried some other stocks and they look ok, both the London Stock Exchange and Google don't show any updates since then. I can't see an RNS advising a suspension of trading.

Any large purchases should show up in the daily volumes:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQ49B8X4hFFdtXb6WUx45CDRcgMt5FBglgZCFc5UnApKRpOX8cznaVjvfKeIWdC6xr70q5wCbdhpFe7/pubchart?oid=2085752711&format=interactive

" truly dont know who gets mortgage/ loans with them; seem to deliberately choose those who will default"

Actually Lloyds seem to be picky who they loan too, their Loan to Value ratio's suggest their loan book is incredibly safe.:

"Total loans and advances increased to £312.7 billion
(31 December 2021: £308.8 billion), with a small reduction in
average LTV to 41.6 per cent (31 December 2021: 42.1 per cent).
The proportion of balances with a LTV greater than 90 per
cent increased to 1.4 per cent (31 December 2021: 0.5 per cent).
The average LTV of new business decreased to 61.7 per cent
(31 December 2021: 63.3 per cent)"

https://www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/assets/pdfs/investors/financial-performance/lloyds-banking-group-plc/2022/full-year/2022-lbg-annual-report.pdf

An LTV below 80% is considered good and Lloyds reported that only 1.4% of their balances have an LTV over 90%. I very much doubt the LTV ratios will have changed dramatically since last year.