What I am reading from this offer is that you pay 3 MPcoin for every Gavincoin bought from MP. Not impressive.
I asked, and you are correct. My bad.
Good. Hopefully he will make a new public offer in the range of 750 current BTC in exchange for something like 3000 future gavincoins (1 mpcoin == 3 gavincoins).
With a fixed refund date where he gives back the 750 BTC + a small interest if the fork does not happen.
I don't know if I understood the entire subtext to this one, but if I did it's pretty funny. So, that is to say, I think this is a joke and not serious right?
Why ? If there is a market between MPcoins and Gavincoins then somebody has to propose a price, that the others are free to accept or not.
The first offer from MP was an obvious mistake, because he valued his own coins below Gavin's one. If he is serious in his commitment, then he will offer more than 1 gavincoin for 1 mpcoin. This starts at 1501 future gavincoins for 750 current bitcoins.
No, the mistake was on my part. His offer is 750 bitcoin today for 1`000 USGavincoin in the future, which is essentially the same as trading 750 post-fork bitcoin for 250 USGavincoin. I might be willing to offer you a better deal, but I will not agree to "refund" in the case that the fork doesn't happen. That's the whole point of making this kind of agreement. I'd be betting that the fork is not successful, whether by being crushed on the market or by not ever happening. If you're really interested in buying some discounted coins, you had better
get in the WoT.