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Re:Introducing the Shift Card: Use Bitcoin where Visa is acc... by celticninja on Friday November 20, 2015 @01:11PM (#10602758)
Have a look at secure investment, they split with $130 million dollars in fiat.

What about the $1bn stolen from moldovan banks?

There has been no customer recourse there.

Trillion? Really? That is an order of magnitude grater than bitcoins total market cap.

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Re:Introducing the Shift Card: Use Bitcoin where Visa is acc... by vkou on Friday November 20, 2015 @04:23PM (#10603970)
The MT.Gox disaster included the theft of ~7% of all BTC.

Depending on how you want to measure the amount of fiat currency in circulation, 7% of that would be close to a trillion dollars.

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