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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: [Emergency ANN] Bitcoinica site is taken offline for security investigation
by
genjix
on 25/05/2012, 10:38:57 UTC
  • Passwords are gone, so they are no use.
  • 80% of BTC funds are (I assume, please confirm) still under Bitcoinica's control.
  • 100% of USD funds are (I assume, please confirm) still under Bitcoinica's control.
  • The problem is you just have a big pool of money and no way of knowing who owns what.
  • That entirely explains the crappy claims page.
  • That entirely explains the delay in processing claims.
  • For we customers: this isn't perfect news, obviously, but it does at least give us some hope that we haven't lost everything.
  • If the investor really is doing the decent thing and funding the 20% BTC losses out of their own pocket, then we should all appreciate that and let that be an end to all the legal shouting.
  • Certainly no amount of shouting is going to recreate a database that doesn't exist.

I honestly don't know. Those more involved can hopefully clarify these points. Anything I say would be guesswork.

I'll stop posting now. I've stated everything I know already.