[keane]

This is somewhat similar to Google Will Eat Itself, a project that has used Google Ad revenue to automatically purchase shares of Google. They currently own about $500k worth of Google and estimate owning the entire company in 200m years.

See (photosensitive warning) http://gwei.org/

[aaronpk]

Also similar to the trick of using a credit card to buy dollar coins from the mint racking up frequent flyer miles in the process.

http://news.consumerreports.org/money/2011/07/travel-hackers...

[ChuckMcM]

That was a nice hack while it lasted.