Quote from: Holliday on August 04, 2016, 05:54:59 PM

Quote from: JimboToronto on August 04, 2016, 02:42:06 PM

Once again, my heart goes out to all those who lost coins at Finex

Your have a kinder heart than I.

My heart goes out to all those Bitcoiners who, after countless exchange failures and hacks, understood the risks of holding large IOUs with third parties, yet still had to watch their asset drop in value as the market priced in (is pricing in) those events. (Of course some will argue this was going to happen to the market anyway.)

The unfortunate thing about society is that everyone has to take the bad along with the good, and when stupid people get together and fuck shit up, everyone pays the price. Perhaps I'm cold hearted, or even a pessimist, but I don't understand this forgiveness when everyone has to bear the burden of the irresponsible.

To be clear, while shitty things do happen quite a lot in bitcoinlandia, I'm speaking more generally here, and these types of "everyone pays" events happen all the time in the grand scheme of things.

Then why would you have sympathy for hodlers who knew a hack was inevitable and therefore the value of their hodlings would decrease temporarily? I bought a small amount at 606 just before the hack. I first let out an appropriate curse but knowing it would be temporary I just shrugged my shoulders. Then again my time line is around 3 years.