To: Mad Dawgg
Apparently there was a trading center in Japan that just went bust and “lost” some $450 million of the customers’ bitcoins in the process. They say it was hacked, but others are calling it embezzlement.
3 posted on
03/06/2014 7:31:36 PM PST by
Carry_Okie
(Islam offers us three choices: Defeat them utterly, die, or surrender to a life of slavery.)
To: Carry_Okie
Yes. That is/was Mt Gox, leader in Bitcoin promotion and exchange. It’s CEO killed herself yesterday.
12 posted on
03/06/2014 8:26:54 PM PST by
ctdonath2
(Making good people helpless doesn't make bad people harmless.)
To: Carry_Okie
that just went bust and “lost” some $450 million of the customers’ bitcoins in the process.Amusingly it was originally founded to provide an out-of-game exchange for "property" in multiplayer online games...Seems people wanted to buy game artifacts like magic swords and such so as to avoid wasting the time playing as a newbie in the game...
19 posted on
03/07/2014 2:35:50 AM PST by
no-s
(when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote)
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