show us the money
06:20 | 05-03-2015 | Economics, Internet, Lifeform | No Comments
современные детективы:
Once the world’s biggest market for the digital currency, the Tokyo-based exchange collapsed on Feb. 28, 2014 with liabilities of some ¥6.5 billion ($63.6 million). It said it was unable to account for some 850,000 bitcoins, worth nearly half a billion dollars at the time.
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But there’s still no explanation of what happened to them, and no clear record of what happened on the exchange.
как тонко подметил один из комментаторов @ Slashdot, “Wasn’t that the whole point behind Bitcoin? That you could fleece investors without leaving a paper trail?”. конечно же, да.