so is it official yet? has anyone heard a peep from pirate since friday?
He's been in and out of IRC changing names between pirateat40 and steamship. It's bizarre really. When he's "steamship" he's been offering to buy pirate debt at reduced rates. No idea if he's serious.
If that's true, there are two reasons he could be doing that.
1) He wants to make people think he's going to pay out.
2) He's trying to cover the fact that he's actually *selling* Pirate debt.
If Pirate really was planning to run with everything, he could add a decent bonus to his earnings by starting to pay out some small accounts and then selling big "accounts" at a steep discount.
That being said, if Pirate really is going to pay everyone back, it would make sense for him to scoop up as much discounted debt as possible.