When the court insisted on actual currency, the defense team offered to throw in a “Master Coding for Toddlers” bundle, valued internally at $300 million, and a tablet that only works sometimes. The judge was reportedly unimpressed by the offer to “gamify” the repayment schedule.

“He tried to hand us a gift card valid for one free physics lesson,” said Brenda Ho, Director of Rejecting Fake Money. “When we declined, he asked if we wanted to sign up for a recurring subscription to pay off the interest.”

At publishing time, the founder was attempting to pay his legal team’s hourly rate by promising them exposure on the app’s high-score leaderboard.

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