I don't know right off hand.  you can probably go back to the original thread and look at the titles of the replies in the posts.  It'll show when it switched from one topic to the next.

reeses is right though, there's a bunch of stuff that is close, but not 'right'..

It started before Nov 3.

Interest was actually 1% day but payable every 3 days.

The thing ran for /almost/ a year.

PPTs were originally discouraged because of something about people bypassing invites.  Eventually, the insured PPT was formed, goat cloned it after several weeks and then many others copied it thereafter.

The people attending Vegas said pirate never went to defcon, just happened to be there the same weekend.  He was supposedly never at the Rio that weekend.

The 'private business plan' was a user's working theory I believe.  Double check this.