Who wants to be a BillionAyre?
Great opportunity available here, first come, first served. (Really, only @Lurkin, because...gullibility)I am looking for someone to that I can promise to give a million bitcoins. I'll trawl the 'chain and come up with a bunch of currently unspent coinbases (a soon-to-be-precedent case will establish that it just doesn't matter if any of them move in the future).
I won't actually give them to you, though, so you are going to have to sue me. Yeah, that's like 400 bucks in filing fees alone, can't make money without spending money. This is like a guaranteed 1000000x though.
Here's how it'll work, see, I promised to give you these coins, but here's the key: I won't! I'll even admit that I didn't straight up. Breach of promise. We'll even work in something like you sent me a hat or whatever, for consideration. And I'll swear in court I mined those coins. I'll swear, like, really hard, which means, in a court of law, that I must be telling the truth, and I'll even mention a lot of witnesses, who, for reasons of privilege such as priest-penitent, doctor-patient, lawyer-client, spousal, and dire complications of admiralty law (where the captain said I cannot make it happen), cannot be produced. I might even cry a little!
Then I'll lose, because everyone here knows I made this promise and I won't deny it.
Then, the court will simply order that miners award all these coins to you, because I lost, and you'll be rich!
Foolproof, right? This strategy is endorsed by renown legal expert Mr. Wright, and I challenge anyone to demonstrate how my fact-pattern deviates from his theory as applied in his empirical demonstration that will be an assured success.
