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Re:Mt. Gox Finds 200,000 Missing Bitcoins by claudius on Friday March 21, 2014 @03:06AM (#7441041)
> A bank loses this kind of money, they get it back for free.

Customers lose that kind of money, they get it back for free. Socialising losses is an annoyingly common theme in ‘capitalist’ countries; unfortunately, it is politically infeasible not to bail out failed banks.

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Re:Mt. Gox Finds 200,000 Missing Bitcoins by shpxnvz on Friday March 21, 2014 @07:17AM (#7441605)
Let's not forget that in neither case is it 'free'. The public foots the bill in both cases.
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