Casualty List

[yayayo]

How could anyone forget these:

- Bitcoinica
- Tradehill

Funny that I almost forgot about these. There was so much drama attached to them (especially Bitcoinica).

I may add:

- GLBSE
- inputs.io


ya.ya.yo!

[ikydesu]

Dont forget to cloud mining service which based on ponzi scheme
like:
- PBmining
- hashprofit


~iki

[pat1900]

While Bitcoin is not dead yet, many important bitcoin companies have come and gone.

While Banking is not dead yet, many important bank companies have come and gone. 140 bank failures in 2009, 152 in 2010, 92 in 2011, a.s.o. and these are the figures for the U.S. alone. Sorry, I digress. Back to the OP:

bitlc.net
Intersango

[TKeenan]

Quote it like this....

While Bitcoin is not dead yet, many important bitcoin companies have come and gone.  Cut and paste to add your favorites to the list...

1) Mt. Gox
2) Bitinstant
3) Silk Road
4) Cavirtex
5) Buttercoin
6) Brawker
7) GLBSE
inputs.io
9) GaW miners
10) SilkRoad#2
11) Butterfly Labs
12) CoinTerra
13) Mining ASICS Technologies (MAT)
14) Mintpal
15)ASICminer
16) Bitcoin24
17) HashFast
18) BTCT.co
19) Bittrivia
20) BitNetwork TV
21)  Bitcoinica
22) Tradehill
23) Instawallet
24) PBmining
25) hashprofit

[Hazir]

Quote it like this....

While Bitcoin is not dead yet, many important bitcoin companies have come and gone.  Cut and paste to add your favorites to the list...

1) Mt. Gox
2) Bitinstant
3) Silk Road
4) Cavirtex
5) Buttercoin
6) Brawker
7) GLBSE
inputs.io
9) GaW miners
10) SilkRoad#2
11) Butterfly Labs
12) CoinTerra
13) Mining ASICS Technologies (MAT)
14) Mintpal
15)ASICminer
16) Bitcoin24
17) HashFast
18) BTCT.co
19) Bittrivia
20) BitNetwork TV
21)  Bitcoinica
22) Tradehill
23) Instawallet
24) PBmining
25) hashprofit

I would like to point that many 'cloud mining" services turned out to be a simply scam and Ponzi scheme. In fact they didn't mine anything!
I think you can add some names to that list: PBmining.com, Lunaminer.com, coinsoncloud.eu, Cryptomine.io, hashie.co, bitcoinlabmining.com, minethatcloud.com, chabatmining.com, GenerateBTC.com.

You can also check Puppet list of scam cloud mining companies for more goodies, here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=878387.0   

[bryant.coleman]

I think we could add these as well:

1. Instawallet
2. MyCoin (HK exchange)
3. Bitomat (Polish BTC exchange)
4. Bitp.it (mining pool)
5. Brasil Bitcoin Market (exchange)
6. BTC Buy
7. Btctip
8. Bit-Bank (wallet)

[Bitware]

According to the FDIC, 486 credit-based fiat financial institutions failed between 2009 and 2015.

https://www2.fdic.gov/hsob/SelectRpt.asp?EntryTyp=30

That Bitcoin failures list is kiddy game bush league in comparison.

[jeffhuys]

Pff, I use bitcoin on a daily basis. It will never die. Not until I say so  I got a guy here who gives out free resistors and shit, even microchips. Great guy, maybe he can get me an ASIC? 

[TeamButtcoin]

According to the FDIC, 486 credit-based fiat financial institutions failed between 2009 and 2015.

https://www2.fdic.gov/hsob/SelectRpt.asp?EntryTyp=30

That Bitcoin failures list is kiddy game bush league in comparison.

Now post the ratio of failed to not-failed institutions for both fiat and bitcoin ecosystems

[crazyivan]

Does LTCgear counts into this? It s not strictly BTC company but a lot of people lost money there.

[btcxyzzz]

What was that Ebay-like site for Bitcoin...?

[bryant.coleman]

What was that Ebay-like site for Bitcoin...?

Bitmit. 

It was closed down almost an year ago. It was a great marketplace for the purchase of various legal products. I still don't understand why they closed it down. There is another site called Cryptothrift operating right now, but it is not that good.

[Soros Shorts]

Just remembered another one:

- CryptoXchange

It wasn't a scam, although service got pretty bad towards the end.

EDIT: And does Bitcoin Magazine count?

[yayayo]

According to the FDIC, 486 credit-based fiat financial institutions failed between 2009 and 2015.

https://www2.fdic.gov/hsob/SelectRpt.asp?EntryTyp=30

That Bitcoin failures list is kiddy game bush league in comparison.

Yes, but Bitcoin is still way smaller than the whole fiat financial system. So in comparison the failure rate seems higher to me.

Of course, Bitcoin is still in its infancy and therefore attracts both a lot of bad actors and unprofessional entrepreneurs. But I'm sure that failure rates will improve with time.

What was that Ebay-like site for Bitcoin...?

Bitmit. 

It was closed down almost an year ago. It was a great marketplace for the purchase of various legal products. I still don't understand why they closed it down. There is another site called Cryptothrift operating right now, but it is not that good.

I still miss Bitmit as well. It really started to gain some traction...

ya.ya.yo!

[Bitware]

What was that Ebay-like site for Bitcoin...?

Bitmit.  

I still don't understand why they closed it down.

Probably because it was a Money Services Business (MSB) that held stored value in the form of bitcoins through their escrow service until the buyer released the funds by acknowledging their receipt of the purchased goods.

[ToshiOcean]

Casualty List?
I nominate the guy who tossed an old hard drive - containing thousands of Bitcoins - into the dumpster. Of course he was an early miner.
I really hate that this man didn't get his slice. Like the old Chinese curse says, "May you live in interesting times."

[moni3z]

Forgot the massive MyBitcoin wallet scam, probably the first large bitcoin 'business' to disappear.
Also Bitomat.pl exchange who shut down their EC2 instance and deleted their entire wallet accidentally.

[bryant.coleman]

Probably because it was a Money Services Business (MSB) that held stored value in the form of bitcoins through their escrow service until the buyer released the funds by acknowledging their receipt of the purchased goods.

The basic logic behind that is good. But it can't be applied to Bitcoin-based businesses, as BTC is a very volatile currency. For example, a buyer, who is selling some stuff for BTC0.10 (when the exchange rate is $900), can incur huge loses if the exchange rate drops to $200. Here, instead of $90, he is getting only $20.

[TheMage]

Moolah.io (separate from mintpal which he bought and gutted).

[tins]

Would mcxNOW fall in here? He never directly stole anything, but did sell 50,000 profit shares and closed down the exchange a few weeks later...