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Re:Why I'm Putting All My Savings into Bitcoin (2011) by 300bps on Monday August 24, 2020 @08:26AM (#24259925)
He also in the article nudged people into using MtGox to buy BTC which doesn’t make much sense in hindsight either.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox

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Re:Why I'm Putting All My Savings into Bitcoin (2011) by redog on Monday August 24, 2020 @08:32AM (#24259966)
There was nothing inherently wrong with Mt. Gox as a place to buy BTC. It was trading it and storing it on Gox that got you burned. I lost 0.6 BTC because I was planning on margin trading some but that was only a fraction of my holdings at the time.
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Re:Why I'm Putting All My Savings into Bitcoin (2011) by Bang2Bay on Monday August 24, 2020 @09:02AM (#24260195)
what happened to the lost money? it was worth 450 M bucks then. probably a lot more today. was it ever recovered by end users?
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