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Re:The troubled history of the Bitcoin exchange MtGox by nerfhammer on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @04:25PM (#7227436)
Amount of losses due to depositary institution failure since 1934:

$0.

This is a rather good record compared to bitcoin.

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Re:The troubled history of the Bitcoin exchange MtGox by kordless on Friday February 14, 2014 @08:39PM (#7242247)
Assuming I can go global, here's an example where you are wrong: http://inequality.org/great-cyprus-bank-robbery/. I'm pretty sure Goldman Sachs got their asses bailed out as well by the taxpayers.

You shouldn't play a shell game with the money and say then say there are "zero losses", but people do. It's called cognitive dissonance and it sucks.

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Re:The troubled history of the Bitcoin exchange MtGox by Eliezer on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @05:18PM (#7227746)
Whaaa? Deposits over $100K (now $250K) were uninsured.
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Re:The troubled history of the Bitcoin exchange MtGox by Guvante on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @05:22PM (#7227781)
They guarantee up to that amount but so far have been covering the full amount due to the negligible difference overall IIRC.
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Re:The troubled history of the Bitcoin exchange MtGox by BlackDeath3 on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @04:43PM (#7227555)
Amount of losses of Bitcoin since 2015:

0 BTC.

Not bad!

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