To all the wonderful despairfags on here illuminating the board with your prescence and showing the sheer scale of your palpable fear.
I hope the sixpence was worth it.
>"has been"
That is present perfect, which is used to descibe an action that started at some undefined moment in time and continues to the present and leaves wide open the possibility for the action to continue into the future.
I taught myself grammar about 10 years ago when I became an English teacher in a non English speaking country.