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The biggest Robery of digital Currency in 5-1-2015
A unknown Hacker Hack The bitstamp Website and transfer all bitcoins
Amount in $ 5,195,392.10

bitcoin address : https://blockchain.info/address/1L2JsXHPMYuAa9ugvHGLwkdstCPUDemNCf

More information : http://www.coindesk.com/bitstamp-claims-roughly-19000-btc-lost-hot-wallet-hack/


now i am worried about mine 0.78BTC in my account :P

First rule of Bitcoin: you don't talk about how many bitcoins you have.

1. This is old news. Not sure why you are reposting.
2. Bitstamp said they will reimburse all lost coins, including but not limited to you.

It's not the biggest robbery.
There were much more coins stolen in the past.
The problem is that you count bitcoins in dollars

its the news of this month and i did not see this news posted here so i just did no offense :D

its the biggest one i know and it isnt about you transfer the amount in dollers the value is still the same

Well,.. what was it,.. Come, help me,.. something with an "x"
Ahh, now I know. It was MtGox! ;D
Far more coins stolen, both in coin count as in dollar terms

Wow

But I doubt this is the biggest theft ever.

It's not.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=83794.0

Is it? I thought first rule of Bitcoin if you dont give your private key to noone.

You could argue that it is exactly the opposite.

It is! double negative doing the job.

This is old news, and it's not the biggest Bitcoin theft. It's just a hot wallet that is relatively small compared to all their funds, btw.

OK.

First rule: You don't give your private key to anyone.
Second rule: You don't talk about how many bitcoins you have.

Third: hodl.

Wasn't the mtgox the biggest robbery of all time ? Wasnt it like 700K bitcoins ?

Well a lot of the bigger ones in that thread were lon cons (most likely) which is somewhat different then a "robbery". Although I do think one of the dark market "hacks" shortly after sr1 was taken down exceeded $5MM in fiat value

http://www.businessinsider.com/220-million-sheep-marketplace-bitcoin-theft-chase-2013-12?IR=T

well, it is supossed that mtgox was robbed, so that would be the biggest I think

Maybe satoshi was robbed  :o  :o  :o
That would be the biggest ;D
He is said to own more than a million coins

I still haven't figured out how Bitstamp is plannin' on performing said feat, considering that the coins lost from the hot wallet belonged to their customers, as does the same amount 100 fold in their cold wallet.

You telling me that Bitstamp has earned at least $5M USD, not counting their operating cost and VC investors receiving at least something during their entire time of existence?

Something doesn't add up!

The next big business will be Bitcoin insurance!

Great idea!

The same guys who own the insurance company will also own the entities being ripped off. The entity puts in a big-ass claim for funds they themselves stole, collect the insurance, then file for bankruptcy. The ultimate triple-dip: Paid while in being operational; Paid when stealing your own funds; Paid when your insurance company funded via others pays your claim. Shit, I forgot one: Paid while the insurance company was operational, but now also defunct.

=http://www.cnet.com/news/bitcoin-startup-circle-unveils-no-fee-digital-currency-banking/Well, Circle.com claim to have them bitcoins insured  (http://=http://www.cnet.com/news/bitcoin-startup-circle-unveils-no-fee-digital-currency-banking/Well, Circle.com claim to have them bitcoins insured)
But since you can't print them coins the price would spike massively when they lost them and had to be rebought by the insurance company.

Love this, great first rule!

First of all, keep your head on a swivel so no one takes that BTC0.78

Second, robbery has two "b"s

This is a pretty good idea....

But how different would this be with dollar business? They could do the same probably already doing it.
The main difference is that the public is compensated by price increase of the remaining coins.

You sir messed up the Third rule: Don't talk about the first two rules.

How can then people know of all the rules if no one talks about them?

Common sense, basically. Why should I go and brag about how much money I have?

Third is: never leave your bitcoins on any exchange.

Hodl is fourth.

How do you even get 'hacked'  ???

Yeah! Something like: The (Threelettercompany) thought it was enough to kill Satoshi, steal his wallet files from his computer and run away with 1 Mio BTC. They didn't know about the need for the encryption password, so the 1 Mio BTC will be untouched forever and this robbery was the biggest fail in BTC history.

Just don't know how these hackers hack these Big Exchanges who claim to have the best available security inserted... Is this the security we are here for?

Your rule I guess, stop claiming shit for the whole community....

f$%cked up :o

Now tell me, how many coins do you have? ;D

This is not the biggest theft. I believe allinvain lost about half a million coins several years ago. And yet he's still active here and there on this forum.

I am not so sure this is the biggest bitcoin robbery in terms BTC number, I think the number is much higher than this if I remember correctly. But in terms of $ count, it might be.

are you forgetting sheep market robbery? 40m$, mtgox couple of hundred million... this is not the biggest robbery by far

Yeah early days a lot more units of BTC must have been stolen..! just that they didnt have such value back then.!

its piece of a cake when comparing to MtGox theft.

I think we must separate theft in bitcoin values and in dollar values.
Theft in bitcoins in 2010 and in 2014 are two big differences...

Bull.

Bitcoin theft is bitcoin theft.
Dollar theft is dollar theft.
Litecoin theft is litecoin theft.


Bitcoin theft in 2009 and in 2015 are exactly the same.
Bitcoins move from one rightful owner to a thief.

People just think it is different because many of them are in this game to get rich quick in dollar terms.

Records are meant to be broken.
Security will continue to get better, but the robberies will become bigger.  ;D

Don't think so, bitcoin in 2009 was just a toy with zero value, and btc owners didn't thought about protection their toys

where is the BTC from Mtgox? 800K BTC cannot disappear overnight. not even in one year :)

o boy holymoly this one was the biggerst one i know so i made this thread did not know about that but seriously half a million ? wow so its 2nd biggest then

but we talk about when it was stolen its the new of this month so i calculated price in dollers of the date when the theft was made

thats not the biggest robbery in bitcoin history! what about the Sheep Marketplace which ran off with $150 MILLION worth of coins?!

ok now i understand its not the biggest one i will edit the thread title to 2nd biggest robbery i think it fill be fine then :v or is it even 2nd biggest ?

::)

as far i know the biggest one in bitcoin history was mtgox scam
hundreds of million $ worth bitcoin scam that crashed the bitcoin price also

yes now i know mtgox was the biggest one and now i can say its the 2nd biggest or even not ?

Wouldn't hodl come first? Because if you ain't hodling you don't have any privat key to care about and no amount to not brag about.