VB’s primary coverage of the Ginko Financial bank run can be found in two posts below, but there are a few important facts are worth highlighting today.

• Ginko is, amazingly, having an IPO to try to raise cash. There was actually some limited early activity, but I suspect it was just insiders churning to make it look good. Around 50,000 shares have theoretically traded, netting Ginko about L$25,000. That will cover… let’s see, two and a half withdrawals today. Check out Nobody Fugazi’s piece on this for some solid quick analysis. Here’s the summary: “Shady.” I don’t have even a single Linden in the in-world markets, but my first thought on this was: is there any way to short it?

• ‘Sarah Nerd’ posted a copy of a June 7 forum post about Ginko’s investments (notably, the original post can be found on a WSE board, which is the other stock exchange Ginko has used to raise money). It describes some of Ginko’s in-world investments, but it states that ‘Portocarerro’ is “uncomfortable disclosing anything regarding the off-world side of things,” which, he admits, account for more than half of the money Ginko owes depositors. I’ll leave analyzing the in-world investments to readers who are more familar with the in-world markets (in fact, I’d really appreciate a comment or two on this if anybody knows how these companies are doing off-hand) but have to ask this: why would ‘Portocarrero’ be “uncomfortable” talking about money that has been taken out of Second Life? That’s kind of an odd way to put it.

• I spent some time at Ginko’s main ATM after it started working again today. It was crowded (image, right). In spite of giant signs saying there was a L$10,000 limit, many people tried to take out much more (unsuccessfully, of course). I don’t see any reason to believe that it is slowing. Ginko’s “Deposits” number is down several hundred thousand Linden in the two hours that the grid has been back up and semi-stable. For those of you who are trying to get in and access funds but cannot teleport, here’s a workaround.

• Ginko apparently did not sell any real world assets during the downtime. This adds to my suspicion that they do not have any assets to sell.

We’ll get back to more purely legal issues here soon, but this is clearly very important to many of VB’s readers, and I have received extremely positive feedback on the coverage, so I’ll keep it up until we have some resolution.