Has anyone contacted law enforcement about
mybitcoin?
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I personally hope not (but obviously am already to late.) Here's why:
If law enforcement has to get involved with such scams, it will cost money. That will create a lamentably legitimate argument that the government should be involved with implementation, regulation, transfer, etc, of Bitcoin. I would have to buy that argument because it is patently unfair to ask anyone to clean up a pile of shit without any ability to regulate it in the first place or stop it from happening again. Even the government(s).
I am sensitive to the argument that to some extent this is a general cyber crime, but Bitcoin is different in my mind. When a kid goes to the emergency room with a hand full of bones and no fingers from trying to make a pipe bomb or playing with an M-80, I feel bad for him of course, but still believe that he (or his parents) should pay the doctor bills. And Bitcoin is a gigantic pipe bomb imho.
Would I feel this way if I lost 100 BTC? I'm sure I would. 25,000 BTC? I honestly dunno. It sucks all around, but my personal feeling is that people should just suck it up and/or participate in efforts to make the specific or general problem less painful going forward.
As always, I can certainly understand if people disagree. And I would feel quite differently if the organization in question (mybitcoin.com) had obtained a business licence and played ball like some of the exchanges seem to be trying to do.