In light of recent developments at Mt. Gox, this thread is worth a revisit. How many more coins were lost this way?
Yes - thanks for digging this one out and sharing - it makes very interesting reading, especially, of course, in the light of what has happened in the last couple of weeks.
I didn't grasp the finities of the coding issues (not my field
etc) though I believe I did get the gist - but FWIW I've got to agree with one of the later posts that was made around 2.5 years back now :- Maybe MagicalTux should try to get some insurance against fuckups like this. Might be expensive and put a lot of hassle on him by ways of auditor wanting to see all code pre-production
is the whole bitcoin thing just a long con? The legal system needs to get a lot more responsive as many of the 10billion world population will deduce that fucking people over and steeling their money is fine...right now the good guys have to do something as these criminals seem to think they can hide behind lawyers and Magic it all away.
I lost money on Gox and quite a lot regarding bitcoin is full of fraud and the public need protecting .
Let's see Gox 2.0 with full reconstituted creditors who are not anonymous.
This post thread seems to justify the whole long con mirage of cryptographic digital currency .
Most jobs are obsolete already, that's where the con is,