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Re:Buttercoin – US-based Bitcoin exchange on Friday February 28, 2014 @04:48PM (#7321733)
that hasn't been updated in NINE MONTHS

this was a scam

they got a bunch of people to write the software for them and then took it closed source

shame on them

Re:Joint Statement Regarding the Insolvency of Mt. Gox on Monday February 24, 2014 @11:19PM (#7295512)
MtGox failed because they relied upon the correctness of their own implementation of the bitcoin protocol.

This was a huge mistake, one which I am sure will haunt all involved for a long time.

Coinbase is making the exact same mistake.

They rely on their own implementation of the bitcoin protocol.

Their client has been hard forked repeatedly.

Some of these incidents were random, but many were forced; not by attackers but by whitehats trying despirately to show them their error.

The danger of using their own implementation cannot be overstated.

For the love of god move to the reference client.