It is a serious offer. If there is really no basis to my claims then tspacepilot would have no reason to hesitate to accept my offer.
Okay, here's an equally serious offer:
Are you willing to put 5BTC into escrow and to leave this forum forever if I will prove that you are an unrepentant arsehole?
If there's really no basis to my claim then you would have no reason to hestitate to accept my offer.
@erikalui: It's not extortion though, it's just nonsense. Extortion is usually where someone demands payment in order to not reveal something damaging. In this case:
(1) QS isn't threating to reveal unless I pay, he's asking for me to pay for him to reveal something which I suppose he thinks is damaging to me; this why I keep emphasizing the craziness here. If he did have something damaging on me, why I would pay for him to reveal it? It's a ludicrous proposition so we probably don't need to give it any more of our attention.
(2) It isn't clear at all what he's even talking about. "Collusion" is wrong in, say, a poker game, where people if two or more people at the table are working as a team without the rest of the game knowing, they gain an unfair advantage. Or, as Blazedout419 was talking about, in an escrow situation where, again, the assumption is that al the parties are mutually self-interested and not having an interest in each other's outcome. But in general in life, "collusion" is simply called "collaboration" and there's not anything wrong with two people working together on a shared goal. In any case, I already said how I knew that Panthers52 was QS, it wasn't hard to realize if you've been harrassed by him for as long as I have. He has a certain je ne sais quois which is a kinda like a big blinking lighthouse, once you've had the "opportunity" to experience it as often as I have.
I think that's all I'm gonna say about QS' "offer". I don't imagine anyone is going to pay him 5BTC to "reveal his proof", so we may as well either let this thread die, it seems that everything which needed to be said about QS' self-escrow scheme has been said, or else turn back to that topic if there's really something more to talk about which is actually on-topic.