Now that would be funny... and frighteningly plausible.

OK, let's assume that I'm Pirate, and I have a significant portion of the bitcoins in existence in my control, which I have no intention of paying back. I could buy a lot of travel time to get to Cancun and start mixing mojitos by giving someone well-known in the community a small chunk of that, and telling them to go spread FUD in the form of betting on me.

Man, I hope I'm wrong on that.