[mcguire]

Not necessarily on topic, but...

"... will give $200,000 in BTC to the first person ..."

Is that $200,000 in BTC at the time the contest was announced, or at the time the winner is announced? Or at some other point?

(This comment brought to you by the Committee For Pointing Out That A Currency That Wildly Fluctuates In Value Is Not Particularly Useful (CFPOTACTWFIVINPU).)

[thedufer]

Ugh. There are a lot of reasons not to participate in this contest, but that's not one of them. The FAQ explicitly says that they'll just give you USD if you'd like, so it doesn't really matter when they pin the USD/Bitcoin exchange rate.