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Re:Bitcoin Bucket Shop Kicks Bucket by Animats on Friday June 19, 2015 @03:33PM (#9747121)
"Beware the Middleman: Empirical Analysis of Bitcoin-Exchange Risk"[1] That was written in 2013. At that point, 45% of the exchanges listed had gone bust. Check their list on page 3. That was before the collapses of Mt. Gox, Vicurex, Intersango, Bitfloor...

[1] http://lyle.smu.edu/~tylerm/fc13.pdf

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Re:Bitcoin Bucket Shop Kicks Bucket by ikeboy on Friday June 19, 2015 @03:54PM (#9747245)
"Five exchanges have not reimbursed affected customers, while six claim to have done so"

So, how did that turn into "most of them taking customer assets with them"?

And that only talks about exchanges, not wallets.

(I'm also disappointed that it didn't break down what percentage of funds were lost).

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