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Who could ever have seen this coming?
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 2:45 am
by Mikey
Half a billion $$ worth of unregulated, anonymous, untraceable virtual currency, traded mostly on the honor system, mysteriously disappears.
Who could ever have seen this coming?
I just hope grandma didn't lose her retirement.
Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange is bankrupt, 850,000 bitcoins worth hundreds of millions missing: CEO
Mt. Gox, once the world's biggest bitcoin exchange, filed for bankruptcy protection in Japan on Friday, saying it may have lost nearly half a billion dollars worth of the virtual coins due to hacking into its faulty computer system.
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Re: Who could ever have seen this coming?
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 1:16 pm
by smackaholic
Who do those fukks think they are spending virtual money? Only the government can do that.
Re: Who could ever have seen this coming?
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 2:24 pm
by Diego in Seattle
smackaholic wrote:Who do those fukks think they are spending virtual money? Only the government can do that.
Yeah, like corporate executives never do that.
Sincerely,
Richard Scrushy
Dennis Kozlowski
Brian Driscoll
Re: Who could ever have seen this coming?
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:36 pm
by titlover
Diego in Seattle wrote:smackaholic wrote:Who do those fukks think they are spending virtual money? Only the government can do that.
Yeah, like corporate executives never do that.
Sincerely,
Richard Scrushy
Dennis Kozlowski
Brian Driscoll
and they get sued and prosecuted when caught.
the govt just keeps on truckin.
fuckin dipshit.
Re: Who could ever have seen this coming?
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 2:39 pm
by Left Seater
Diego in Seattle wrote:smackaholic wrote:Who do those fukks think they are spending virtual money? Only the government can do that.
Yeah, like union bosses never do that.
FTFY.
Re: Who could ever have seen this coming?
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 5:11 pm
by Shlomart Ben Yisrael
...and it's MtGOX, as in Magic the Gathering Online Exchange, not Mt. GOX as in Mount GOX...
Re: Who could ever have seen this coming?
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 5:14 pm
by Shlomart Ben Yisrael
Ask me about cryptocurrency and "coin mining"...
Re: Who could ever have seen this coming?
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 5:20 pm
by mvscal
Shlomart Ben Yisrael wrote:...and it's MtGOX, as in Magic the Gathering Online Exchange, not Mt. GOX as in Mount GOX...
:cry: :cry: :cry:
I thought it was Mount Gax?
--Gaysc