How can you reimburse that much? Have you really made that much profit?
Yes, our historical profit is fairly sufficient to cover the loss from this incident, and we believe that it's the best interest for the community to keep running the business. We will take appropriate strategies and implement more security features to prevent this from happening ever again, even with the presence of dishonest partners or employees.
this is hard to believe. It takes MtGox around 2 months to earn that much and their volume is way larger then yours.
Mt. Gox only charges (at most) 0.6% in fees. Bitcoinica currently charges the equivalent of 1.168%
in fees (
https://www.bitcoinica.com/ bottom page) and allows leveraged trading (buying/selling more bitcoins/dollars than you actually have). So when a guy
like this short sells for $130,000 worth of bitcoins, Bitcoinica makes around $1500 in, quite literally, no time.
Bitcoinica spreads take the market depth into account. We don't charge fees directly. Most of the time, trading on Bitcoinica is just slightly more expensive than Mt. Gox for heavy traders (who pay 0.3% at Mt. Gox), and usually cheaper for infrequent traders.