Why bet only imaginary money? (wasRe:[extropy-chat]SETI:Firstradio signal from alien)

[Alejandro Dubrovsky]

On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 23:14 -0700, Spike wrote:

> This is such an obvious idea, it is inconceivable that
> it hasn't already been done.  We concluded at the time,
> about 4 yrs ago, that someone somewhere was already
> running a real money IFX.  Then one of our absent ExIers
> posted me offlist asking if I wanted to join a real
> money IFX.  I was busy with a graduate class at the time
> so I declined, and never got back with it.
> 
> Whoever is running a real money IFX or knows who is doing
> so, please contact Brett offline and invite him to join,
> thanks. 

Hasn't foresight been running an IFX (Robin's original) with real money
for about a decade now? (i could be mistaken in at least three counts on
that sentence though)

alejandro