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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: Jack N Hoff on April 18, 2013, 12:38 am

Title: If you bet Silk Road will remain open come make some bitcoins!
Post by: Jack N Hoff on April 18, 2013, 12:38 am
So I found a bitcoin better site and there is a bet on there that Silk Road will be closed by July 1st of this year.  I disagree and so do most of the people betting.

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Silk Road will be closed by July 1st, 2013

The black (and grey) market site will be closed permanently by 12:01am UTC, 1/7/2013 (or 7/1/2013 for Americans).

It does not matter whether it is shutdown by law enforcement (DEA, FBI, whatever) or whether Silk Road staff shut it down and returned any funds owed to users or even if they absconded with whatever BTC they had left in the site when they ran. The site moving to a different hidden/darknet address does not count as shutting the site down. Shutting the site down means all operations have ceased.


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Opening date: Sept. 19, 2012
Bet deadline: June 29, 2013 end of day Eastern Time
Event date: July 1, 2013 end of day Eastern Time
Category: Other
Total agree bets: 0.20
Total disagree bets: 3.48
Total weighted agree bets: 1309.821
Total weighted disagree bets: 16714.973
http://betsofbitco.in/item?id=688
Title: Re: If you bet Silk Road will remain open come make some bitcoins!
Post by: Cynosure on April 18, 2013, 04:15 am
I saw this over on BitCoinTalk; but, I'm not too familiar with the mechanics of the betting system.

How much does one have to put down and what sort of profit (with the current weights) would one be looking to make?
Title: Re: If you bet Silk Road will remain open come make some bitcoins!
Post by: Jack N Hoff on April 18, 2013, 04:44 am
I saw this over on BitCoinTalk; but, I'm not too familiar with the mechanics of the betting system.

How much does one have to put down and what sort of profit (with the current weights) would one be looking to make?
I've never used it so I don't know either.  I've seen people on bitcointalk mention betting on there before.  That isn't one of the popular bets though.  Sorry I couldn't give you an answer.
Title: Re: If you bet Silk Road will remain open come make some bitcoins!
Post by: caman420 on April 18, 2013, 10:26 am
The new Mayan calender

I should start doomsday prepping again
Title: Re: If you bet Silk Road will remain open come make some bitcoins!
Post by: iiivision on April 18, 2013, 10:59 am
I'm not going to place a bet but i will say that i very much doubt the road is going anywhere anytime soon.

Much love and respect to all beings.
Title: Re: If you bet Silk Road will remain open come make some bitcoins!
Post by: SinningSaint on April 18, 2013, 12:28 pm
Yeah, I think SR is gunna be pretty god damn hard for LE to shut down, and really unlikely DPR will shut it down.
However, I think as it gets more popular, mail customs are getting stricter. And with e-mail replacing mail these days, it's going to be really easy for customs to inspect each product and know what to look for.
Title: Re: If you bet Silk Road will remain open come make some bitcoins!
Post by: donatto on April 18, 2013, 01:49 pm
Nice bet to scam people, smart guys.