User blog comment:Fintin/Bounties/@comment-92.239.8.47-20100708004027

I think that luufy's bounty will rise regardless of whether the marines choose to make his actions a secret. This has already occured when luffy took down crocodile and his bounty was raised even though the marines covered up the event. I believe that his bounty was not previously raised after morias defeat due to more pressing matters being at hand (marineford war) and the fact that it was not statistically a great loss to the world gov (someone with a previous 315000000 beli bounty was defeated by someone with a 300000000 beli bounty). Now, after the series of shocking events since the previous bounty was issued, the world gov has no choice to raise luffy's bounty. My estimate is a 600000000 beli overall bounty.