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  • $386M allegedly missing, as investors fear bitcoin Ponzi

    02/09/2015 8:26:35 PM PST · by CutePuppy · 47 replies
    CNBC ^ | 2015 February 08 | Everett Rosenfeld
    Hong Kong-based bitcoin exchange MyCoin has allegedly shut its doors and stolen HKD 3 billion ($386.9 million) in the process. The South China Morning Post reported Monday that 30 MyCoin clients approached a local lawmaker with complaints that the company had fled with funds from up to 3,000 investors. The reports coming out of Hong Kong would seem to indicate that there may have been a Ponzi scheme at play. "No one seems to know who is behind this," a woman surnamed Lau, who said she lost HKD 1.3 million, told the paper. "Everyone says they, too, are victims ......