guess people forgot the drama that amir taaki was involved in
I wasn't here at the time. Care to share some pointers?
He released the source code of a site "bitcoinica" (similar to bitfinex today). He did this without permission. That was bad enough itself, but it turns out the source code included an API key to mtgox which was also used as password for LastPass. Somebody figured this out after he released the source code which resulted in a theft of 40k USD and 40k BTC. (
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=93074.0)
So yeah, it looks like he made people lose a lot of money and "could care less" about it since they "have lots more".
Many thanks for the links. I've heard about the bitcoinica affair a lot of times and I never bother to check what it really happened. Eventually it seems I have all the info I need to get an idea of what was going on.