Besides, who deals on a website named "Sheep Marketplace"? Aren't you just SCREAMING to be shorn, there?
bttt
Round up the usual suspects - NSA, FBI, CIA.
Sounds like a “White Collar” episode.
Silicon Valley catches Bitcoin fever
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3097361/posts
A Prediction: Bitcoin Is Doomed to Fail
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3097365/posts
Bits and Bob [analysis of Bitcoin]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3097370/posts
Bitcoin Under Pressure
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3097394/posts
The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/11/mf_bitcoin/all/
Baaah-baah. I was robbed of anonymous coins at the sheep market place. Talk about leading lambs to their slaughter .
The Winkelvoss twins have recently made a major investment in Bitcoins future.
I have seen a half dozen or so articles, PR if you will, about Bitcoin that are unusual.
From what I can tell, they are trying to normalize Bitcoin as an accepted “store of value” publicly, so they can establish an EFT or derivatives market.
I don’t think this latest issue will deter their efforts.
I’m sure Interpol will get right on it!
hahaha
can’t exactly call the cops and say the dealer stole your drug money...
heh
recently another story had a website called Zambian Meat
just don’t go there
Lots of weirdos on the internet
The poor !?! Have you met them? They haven’t two bitcoins to rub together.
Forbes’ Andy Greenburg reported: Sheep’s owners have used that theft to justify closing the market without returning the bitcoins stored in the market by users, despite claiming that they would redistribute those coins to users’ “emergency addresses.”
Oopsie. Would these fine anonymous people compromise their reputation for a mere $44 million?
Maybe I should rephrase that...
Let’s leave just leave this currency business to the adults at the Fed. They know what they are doing.
How exactly was the value of the amount lost calculated? Not exactly the kind of situation where someone goes to the cops to report a theft. So with these deep web sites how is it possible to verify much of anything.
Distant acquaintance of mine bought two bit coins a year or two ago for $80 each and cashed them in late last week for $1000 each.
Money is in his hand so it was real.
Sorry folks, this is clearly simply a case of an illegal drug deal (actually a multitude of deals) gone bad. Folks engaging in illegal activity that involves money are a traditional target of other criminals. I’m not losing any sleep over this.
Got bitcoins? Make sure you secure them properly—they are, in effect, just like cash.