Larry Flint to Pay anyone $1,000,000 for Romney Tax Return.

[FlipPro]

I must say that I am surprised about this.

"Two days ago a hacker group claimed to have gotten its hands on Mitt Romney’s tax returns, and would be releasing them on September 28th unless the Romney campaign wire transfers $1 million in Bitcoins. Now news is breaking that Larry Flynt, the founder of Hustler magazine, is offering $1 million to anyone who can provide information on Romney’s tax returns. Flynt is going as far as to take out full-page ads in national newspapers next week to make his offer more public."

http://www.mediaite.com/online/larry-flynt-is-offering-one-million-dollars-for-details-of-romneys-tax-returns/

[luv2drnkbr]

Time for BitInstant to contact Mon-senior Flint???.......

[mc_lovin]

Time for BitInstant to contact Mon-senior Flint???.......

I think so!

This should be moved to the Press section though.

That site has original content but it does source this page: http://www.adweek.com/news/press/larry-flynt-offers-1m-reward-mitt-romney-tax-returns-143474

[FlipPro]

Time for BitInstant to contact Mon-senior Flint???.......

I think so!

This should be moved to the Press section though.

That site has original content but it does source this page: http://www.adweek.com/news/press/larry-flynt-offers-1m-reward-mitt-romney-tax-returns-143474

They can put breaking story in the press section. This thread was made for the purpose of discussion.

[iCEBREAKER]

oh goody, maybe Larry flynt and max keiser  will join forces.  I don't care about mittcoins but really would like Stacy  Herbert in hustler! 

http://www.piratemyfilm.com/projects/395

Max Keiser ‏@maxkeiser
My own spin: I'll raise $1 mn. in bitcoin on http://PirateMyfilm.com  to pay hackers to release Mitt's tax info

[Bitcoin Oz]

What if Mitt offers $1 million as  a bounty on the heads of the "hackers" ?

[vokain]

escrow that shit yo

[kangasbros]

The problem is that the hacker didn't have the tax returns at first place... It was just a publicity stunt/scam.

[iCEBREAKER]

escrow that shit yo

LUL!  Nanotube, call your office.  Bain Capital is on line 1....

[bbit]

pulls a seat up and *gets out the popcorn* ....

[AsymmetricInformation]

What if Mitt offers $1 million as  a bounty on the heads of the "hackers" ?

$1M, paid in Bitcoins

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/09/06/blackmail-and-a-briefcase-of-bitcoin/

 

[420]

Sounds suspicious as the story where ANONYMOUS person wants $1,000,000 to NOT release ROmney tax returns:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xneJy3zDrbY

Larry Flint pay this guy and everyone wins

[AsymmetricInformation]

Sounds suspicious as the story where ANONYMOUS person wants $1,000,000 to NOT release ROmney tax returns:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xneJy3zDrbY

Larry Flint pay this guy and everyone wins

There's a bit of strange strategy going on here, though. The hackers claim to be releasing it for free on Sept 28th, so why would you pay $1m? Your only reasons would be a) to have it earlier and/or b) to stop someone from making the converse-payment (thus preventing you from ever seeing the returns).

Knowing that team Romney would still lose by paying 1m to conceal the returns (saying "I don't feel like releasing something personal" is pretty different from "I payed 1m to someone who successfully blackmailed me"), making it unlikely, and with the possibility that some guy is just going to take the $ and run, I doubt either person will pay.

[blablahblah]

I think Romney could easily have gotten it paid without anything tying him to it. Just because some BTC are sent doesn't prove it was him. I feel like if he thought they had it, and there was some not great stuff in there, he'd have paid by now.

I think they're going for the "ignore and hope for the best" strategy. 4 weeks is a long time. The hackers should've made it Sept 14th or something like that. Just in time for the Bitcoin 2012 conference

[420]

I think Romney could easily have gotten it paid without anything tying him to it. Just because some BTC are sent doesn't prove it was him. I feel like if he thought they had it, and there was some not great stuff in there, he'd have paid by now.

I think they're going for the "ignore and hope for the best" strategy. 4 weeks is a long time. The hackers should've made it Sept 14th or something like that. Just in time for the Bitcoin 2012 conference

where's that conference?

[Akka]

Damn it.

I saw this after I already made my own thread.

German Newspaper Spiegel brings this story too and the even mention bitcoin.

http://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fpolitik%2Fausland%2Flarry-flynt-pornolegende-bietet-million-fuer-romneys-steuerdaten-a-854754.html&act=url

[JoelKatz]

There's a bit of strange strategy going on here, though. The hackers claim to be releasing it for free on Sept 28th, so why would you pay $1m? Your only reasons would be a) to have it earlier and/or b) to stop someone from making the converse-payment (thus preventing you from ever seeing the returns).

It would easily be worth $1,000,000 to have them early. You could run a two-hour primetime special dissecting them and the ratings would be amazing. Is it worth publicly being known as the douche who paid $1,000,000 to a blackmailer .. that's another question.

[AsymmetricInformation]

There's a bit of strange strategy going on here, though. The hackers claim to be releasing it for free on Sept 28th, so why would you pay $1m? Your only reasons would be a) to have it earlier and/or b) to stop someone from making the converse-payment (thus preventing you from ever seeing the returns).

It would easily be worth $1,000,000 to have them early. You could run a two-hour primetime special dissecting them and the ratings would be amazing. Is it worth publicly being known as the douche who paid $1,000,000 to a blackmailer .. that's another question.

Ah, but not an exclusive two-hour primetime special...you would want to market it in advance, and my understanding is that the hackers would just release the decryption-information to everyone. Thus fewer people could profit by the release of the returns, making it less likely that to pay for release, and consequently less likely either of the two will pay, no?

Its also possible that the tax returns contain nothing interesting...if people were making a big deal about my returns AND they were normal-enough, I'd allow the controversy to fester so that I could slay it in one stroke by releasing my own returns days before the election.