[LINK] Bitcoin robbery - again

Jim Birch planetjim at gmail.com
Wed Mar 5 12:17:20 AEDT 2014


It's probably better to write out your bitcoins on paper and bury them in
the backyard.  :)


On 5 March 2014 09:17, Jan Whitaker <jwhit at janwhitaker.com> wrote:

> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/04/flexcoin-shuts-down_n_4896591.html
>
> Another day, another bunch of missing bitcoins.
>
> A bitcoin bank called Flexcoin announced on Tuesday that it was
> shutting its doors, saying hackers had robbed it of 896 bitcoins,
> worth about $600,000 at recent bitcoin prices. The news came just
> days after the bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox filed for bankruptcy after it
> misplaced more than $500 million worth of bitcoins. These losses were
> just the latest in a string of debacles to threaten the legitimacy of
> a crypto-currency beloved by techies, libertarians and rich, white
> dudes (at the risk of being redundant).
> [snip - more at the link]
>
>
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