Quote from: Factory on August 06, 2013, 07:36:47 PM

Quote from: dooglus on August 06, 2013, 06:22:58 PM

Does anyone know how much pirate is estimated to have stolen, and the dollar value? I thought it was more than 100k BTC, but I may be wrong.

If I remember correctly, somewhere around 500,000 btc. This was when it was trading around $10, so $5,000,000 total. In the SEC statement regarding Pirate, I believe they said he only profited around $170,000. Either he threw most of it away trying to trade on exchanges, or there is still a large majority of it out there hidden by Trendon Shavers.

I used to track the weekly interest payments on the blockchain. According to my records, the biggest payout was on 2012-07-31 and totaled 29185.16076506 BTC. If that was 7% of the total invested then the total was 416930 BTC. Though I expect a lot of people were auto-reinvesting their profits.

My notes for that week (txid and comments):

b84e5514ae74800bd8e3acc81ccfcf7a587cc1eef03e574f2dfcb522ec66e9f0   2012-07-31 01:03:39 - day late
4196499760499d01540ad45f0a63ce6d3a39dde7433d20f79510a7963a1d4334   2012-07-31 01:07:31 - day late
45d3a306da46063a8fa5f67174da1579e7bab285cb4695f405b2edc4e858f203   2012-07-31 01:15:22 - day late
17d7fb6637030fede7ca22ca3ed34a209c7d60f85b731f0cd6e1a9d221c148a9   2012-07-31 01:17:17 - day late
6efc289539e7c07b4eb3ee728a15eef7516d97b574233c011a6c55a72ee7a70d   2012-07-31 15:39:55 - day late (payb.tc's interest)
b57bd54995da4354cc05571dff7369794929c263789850a66da57a1ecfa75007   2012-07-31 22:26:56 - day late (rest of payb.tc's interest?)