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Board Trading Discussion
Re: Putting your money where Pirate's mouth is.
by
dust
on 17/09/2012, 02:51:33 UTC
But I can.  Find a trusted escrow and Ill bet you anything you put in it.

Classic.  Is this the most expensive sentence ever typed into this forum?

At current $/BTC exchange rates, this was a pretty hefty bet by any yard stick.  I'm surprised we haven't seen any mainstream press pick up this story.  I can just see the headline, "Local Man Wins $119,000 In Bet With Ponzi Operator".
BurtW's BTC10k bet was bigger, although there is no proof he deposited that amount: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=97094.0