Pretty much all the big players have been in it from the beginning.
That can be an illusion, as it was in the Bernie Madoff case. (Everyone thought they held a much higher percentage of Madoff's deposits than they actually did because Madoff had far more money "on deposit" than he let on.)
Joel - I need help identifying possible shill forum accounts. I run a 1M+ post poker forum and have since 2004 and understand characteristics of shills and dupes. I need community members that have been around for a long time here to look through the now locked BCST thread and see if you can identify low post-count users that basically always just suck off Pirate40 and say how great he is and always enthusiastically report their interest was paid.
Can you or anyone else help me try and identify shills? I would bet even money they are out there in most of these Ponzi investment threads...