...that's what I am hoping...and if I ask REALLY nice-like, perhaps I will get paid.
It would really suck for him to break the trust that so many people have had for him over the past months.
Maybe he's trying to teach us all a lesson ? ...and he will re-appear, like the second coming of christ !
Let's all pray to Satan or whoever we chose, that pirateat40 returns with all of our lost bitcoins and has stories of a grand adventure to tell us all once he has returned.
He checked the forum about 13 hours ago, so I believe there is still hope and if he returned, I would great him as a brother.
I heard he will have his own presentation at bitcoin conference in London to tell everybody how his con was prepared and executed from the day 1. Then he will thank everybody who participated and will vanish to his Caribbean island.