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July 27, 2012, 10:09:46 AM
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How does this bet work if pirate defaults before the bet deadline?  What prevents everyone from piling on bets on the winning side until the the deadline date?  Does betsofbitco.in have a system in place to invalidate all bets after an arbitrary date?

Bets of Bitcoin ends bets once they are determined.

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July 27, 2012, 12:46:08 PM
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Just made another shorter-term bet for those who are interested.

Going on last summers crash.... if it's a ponzi, the price fluxuations might scare people away. Not sure Smiley.

Bitcoin Savings and Trust will default before the end of September 2012
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July 27, 2012, 11:53:16 PM
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Just made another shorter-term bet for those who are interested.

Going on last summers crash.... if it's a ponzi, the price fluxuations might scare people away. Not sure Smiley.

Bitcoin Savings and Trust will default before the end of September 2012

Bet deadline: Sept. 28, 2012 end of day Eastern Time
Event date: Sept. 30, 2012 end of day Eastern Time

Thats what makes these bets so pointless.  Set the deadline short and the event in 6 months, and you might an interesting bet.

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July 27, 2012, 11:55:18 PM
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Just made another shorter-term bet for those who are interested.

Going on last summers crash.... if it's a ponzi, the price fluxuations might scare people away. Not sure Smiley.

Bitcoin Savings and Trust will default before the end of September 2012

Bet deadline: Sept. 28, 2012 end of day Eastern Time
Event date: Sept. 30, 2012 end of day Eastern Time

Thats what makes these bets so pointless.  Set the deadline short and the event in 6 months, and you might an interesting bet.

Good point, although, afaik late betters receive less %.

I may make a 2nd one default before end of October, with bet close end first week of September, this might drive more interest?
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July 28, 2012, 12:37:13 AM
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I believe, to the best of my knowledge, that given the absence of any public financial disclosure and an extremely high rate of return that the Bitcoin Savings and Trust is a Ponzi scheme.

I'd like to make this a forum-based petition of bitcointalk users who agree with this.  I don't want to do a poll, because I want people to commit their user name to this statement.

I'm interested in seeing how many people agree with me.   I'd prefer to have any debate over this issue in a separate thread.

My theory is that if you want to develop community, then you need to figure out who to trust and what is a scam.  Bitcoin has suffered from too many scams.

So if you agree, reply and say "I agree".



I agree / started my own thread pointing them all out

we must at least contain these ponzis outside the marketplace > lending category - it's making BTC look foolish

I wish you didn't start another thread.  We have a million of them already.  Do you think by starting another thread you did any good. 

this thread that I started:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=94900.0

is for different reasons than this thread:

1) list ALL ponzis & ponzi derivatives
2) list All BTC scams of any sort I find here
3) start petition to get these threads of out the Marketplace > lending category.  "speculation" won't do either - these are scams, not risky investments.  no possible winning outcome for 90+% of investors.


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July 29, 2012, 12:25:16 AM
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BST isn't an investment. We know that.
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September 08, 2012, 03:06:07 AM
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According to my research, his real name is most likely one of the following:

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Dents Horns
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And Joel was so close!

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