Few weeks ago I accidentally sent 20btc worth of razorcoin to a riecoin address.. and everyone made fun of me when I requested the developer some how code something for the next update that would return my coins. I was emotional and was not thinking clearly or rationally and it was a stupid request to even consider asking. I know it sucks but sometimes you just gotta take the loss. At one point darkcoin got attacked pretty hard when a hacker stole a bunch of coins and used it to crash the price of darkcoin. In the real world if something goes wrong, you can't just jump in a time machine and make it right.
Please note, that this is not a case where a "huge amount of coins" are stolen. This has been 30% of the total volume, which would lead to disastrous stuff if not corrected. It was forking or die.
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how do you know the coins were stolen and mintpal didn't just mess up themselves? They haven't released any logs to prove what is happening. Pretty much all the devs did was kinda save mintpals ass, but the coin is still going to suffer the same fate it would have if the hacker got to keep the 30%.
Interesting and very valid point, actually we will have to see how they proceed to clarify this matter, not just reimbursing the affected people but also proving to the community that in fact an attack was perpetrated.
Failing to do so might (and should) kill the exchange.
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