Third by volume Bitcoin exchange is down and won't get up. Bitcoins lost.

Re:Third by volume Bitcoin exchange is down and won't get up... by polyfractal on Sunday July 31, 2011 @08:58AM (#2828232)

Another example of Bitcoins being run by a bunch of amateur clowns. Drag this poor excuse for a financial instrument behind the shed and put it down already.

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Re:Third by volume Bitcoin exchange is down and won't get up... by Amincd on Sunday July 31, 2011 @09:16AM (#2828258)

This is not a case of bitcoin being run by any one, this is an independent party running a service dealing with bitcoins, and their service failing. Your comment is like asking the dollar to be dragged behind the shed and put down because of Bernie Madoff engaging in fraud involving dollars.

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Re:Third by volume Bitcoin exchange is down and won't get up... by regularfry on Sunday July 31, 2011 @10:51AM (#2828439)

It is through mistakes like this that the ecosystem will improve.

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Re:Third by volume Bitcoin exchange is down and won't get up... by joe_the_user on Sunday July 31, 2011 @07:02PM (#2829958)

Only if entire bitcoin concept itself is not a mistake or a racket or a scam or the other names that just all, uh, competent economists call it.

After a long series of bank failures, the US learned that financial regulation plays an important role (despite from being far, far from perfect).

Bitcoin's organization stems more ideological predelictions than an understanding of the problems of the existing financial system.

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