RickJamesBTC, do I put you up 20k for the bounty?
Owndapwn, It seems to be over a billion, but I cant be sure. For more info see
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=397762.0, they are forming a money trail. This is not a loss count though, its a bounty for retrieval. The bounty is paid when the doge is retrieved, which provides strong incentives for the people that lost the doge(since they have little to lose by contributing) and the successful person or group that happens to be responsible for retrieval of the doge. There is a second bounty of 140k for the identity of Phonetic.
Yeah, I don't care. I had somewhere around 20k sitting in there when they disappeared. If someone retrieves it they can keep it. The losses from this pool aren't really significant for anyone that I've seen so far, even as a total it really isn't worth it for a criminal to risk. I don't get it. I suppose some people are desperate.