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I'm going to disagree here. I'm not in Bitcoin to trust people, and there are only very few people on this forum who I'd trust with $1000. Let me put it this way: if you select 3 dozen people, send each of them $1000 with the agreement to return it after a week, I think you'll end up with $35k or less.
Yes - you are right, LoyceV.
Someone can be trusted with $1.
Someone can be trusted with $10.
Someone can be trusted with $50.
Someone can be trusted with $100.
Someone can be trusted with $500.
Someone can be trusted with $1000.
Someone can be trusted with $1000+.
Each of them can still be trusted with different amounts of money - of course, the higher the amount of money involved, the fewer people can be trusted. Especially with those who just use pseudonyms
[bitcointalk username] - it's really hard to trust many users with $1000 or more.