Casualty List

[TKeenan]

1) Mt. Gox
2) Bitinstant
3) Silk Road
4) Bex.io
5) Buttercoin
6) Brawker
7) GLBSE
8) 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) AllCrypt
25) CryptoRush
26) bitlc.net
27) Intersango
28) bitbook.biz
29) PBmining
30) hashprofit
31) CryptoXchange
32) MyCoin
33) Bitomat
34) Bitp.it
35) Brasil Bitcoin Market
36) BTC Buy
37) Btctip
38) Bit-Bank
39) Bitmit
40) Sheep Marketplace
41) hashie.co
42) Moolah
43) Seals with Clubs
44) mcxnow
45) x-bt
46) Justcoin
47) Living Room of Satoshi
48) Satoshi dice
49) Brawker
50) Bitmarket.eu
51) MyBitcoin
52) Bitscalper
53) BS&T
54) FeedZeBirds
55) btcxchange.ro

[chases]

1) Mt. Gox
2) Bitinstant
3) Silk Road
4) Bex.io
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) AllCrypt
25) CryptoRush
26) bitlc.net
27) Intersango
28) bitbook.biz
29) PBmining
30) hashprofit
31) CryptoXchange
32) MyCoin
33) Bitomat
34) Bitp.it
35) Brasil Bitcoin Market
36) BTC Buy
37) Btctip
38) Bit-Bank
39) Bitmit
40) Sheep Marketplace
41) hashie.co
42) Moolah
43) Seals with Clubs
44) mcxnow
45) x-bt
46) Justcoin
47) Living Room of Satoshi
48) Satoshi dice
49) Brawker
50) Bitmarket.eu
51) MyBitcoin
52) Bitscalper
53) BS&T
54) FeedZeBirds
55) btcxchange.ro

56) CoinEX.pw

[Gleb Gamow]

1) Mt. Gox
2) Bitinstant
3) Silk Road
4) Bex.io
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) AllCrypt
25) CryptoRush
26) bitlc.net
27) Intersango
28) bitbook.biz
29) PBmining
30) hashprofit
31) CryptoXchange
32) MyCoin
33) Bitomat
34) Bitp.it
35) Brasil Bitcoin Market
36) BTC Buy
37) Btctip
38) Bit-Bank
39) Bitmit
40) Sheep Marketplace
41) hashie.co
42) Moolah
43) Seals with Clubs
44) mcxnow
45) x-bt
46) Justcoin
47) Living Room of Satoshi
48) Satoshi dice
49) Brawker
50) Bitmarket.eu
51) MyBitcoin
52) Bitscalper
53) BS&T
54) FeedZeBirds
55) btcxchange.ro
56) CoinEX.pw
57) AMT
58) HashTrade
59) WBX

[bryant.coleman]

Can I add Labcoin here? They were a Bitcoin mining company, established in 2013. Went AWOL after collecting some BTC7,000 from unsuspecting investors in BTCT.co and other crypto-exchange sites. I myself lost some BTC0.1 in this scam. There were talks here of initiating a lawsuit against them, but none of that ever materialized.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=325431.0

[fryarminer]

50BTC.com

for some reason I and others forget that these bastards stole 91btc from me alone...

They stole about that much from me too - I forgot about that! It was like a week after I started trusting them and began to not withdraw my funds every day!

[fryarminer]

1) Mt. Gox
2) Bitinstant
3) Silk Road
4) Bex.io
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) AllCrypt
25) CryptoRush
26) bitlc.net
27) Intersango
28) bitbook.biz
29) PBmining
30) hashprofit
31) CryptoXchange
32) MyCoin
33) Bitomat
34) Bitp.it
35) Brasil Bitcoin Market
36) BTC Buy
37) Btctip
38) Bit-Bank
39) Bitmit
40) Sheep Marketplace
41) hashie.co
42) Moolah
43) Seals with Clubs
44) mcxnow
45) x-bt
46) Justcoin
47) Living Room of Satoshi
48) Satoshi dice
49) Brawker
50) Bitmarket.eu
51) MyBitcoin
52) Bitscalper
53) BS&T
54) FeedZeBirds
55) btcxchange.ro
56) CoinEX.pw
57) AMT
58) HashTrade
59) WBX

Basically every name we can remember from Bitcoin! (Not true but sure feels like it!)

[TKeenan]

Can I add Labcoin here?

Copy the list.  Add 'Labcoin'.  Repost the list.  Anyone can do it.

[Bitware]

Can I add Labcoin here?

Copy the list.  Add 'Labcoin'.  Repost the list.  Anyone can do it.

... and please sort the list alphabetically.

[herzmeister]

Intersango
Coinlenders

[BeetcoinScummer]

Bitfloor (Roman Shtylman's exchange)

[frontdenplastic]

Paytunia

[TKeenan]

1) Mt. Gox
2) Bitinstant
3) Silk Road
4) Bex.io
5) Buttercoin
6) Brawker
7) GLBSE
8) 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) AllCrypt
25) CryptoRush
26) bitlc.net
27) Intersango
28) bitbook.biz
29) PBmining
30) hashprofit
31) CryptoXchange
32) MyCoin
33) Bitomat
34) Bitp.it
35) Brasil Bitcoin Market
36) BTC Buy
37) Btctip
38) Bit-Bank
39) Bitmit
40) Sheep Marketplace
41) hashie.co
42) Moolah
43) Seals with Clubs
44) mcxnow
45) x-bt
46) Justcoin
47) Living Room of Satoshi
48) Satoshi dice
49) Brawker
50) Bitmarket.eu
51) MyBitcoin
52) Bitscalper
53) BS&T
54) FeedZeBirds
55) btcxchange.ro
56) CoinEX.pw
57) AMT
58) HashTrade
59) WBX
60) Intersango
61) Coinlenders
62) Paytunia
63) Bitfloor

[Gleb Gamow]

1) Mt. Gox
2) Bitinstant
3) Silk Road
4) Bex.io
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) AllCrypt
25) CryptoRush
26) bitlc.net
27) Intersango
28) bitbook.biz
29) PBmining
30) hashprofit
31) CryptoXchange
32) MyCoin
33) Bitomat
34) Bitp.it
35) Brasil Bitcoin Market
36) BTC Buy
37) Btctip
38) Bit-Bank
39) Bitmit
40) Sheep Marketplace
41) hashie.co
42) Moolah
43) Seals with Clubs
44) mcxnow
45) x-bt
46) Justcoin
47) Living Room of Satoshi
48) Satoshi dice
49) Brawker
50) Bitmarket.eu
51) MyBitcoin
52) Bitscalper
53) BS&T
54) FeedZeBirds
55) btcxchange.ro
56) CoinEX.pw
57) AMT
58) HashTrade
59) WBX
60) Coinlenders
61) Paytunia
62) NeoBee

[herzmeister]

sorry for the Intersango double entry, I of course checked if it was already there, something must have gone wrong with the browser search 

[Gleb Gamow]

1) Mt. Gox
2) Bitinstant
3) Silk Road
4) Bex.io
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) AllCrypt
25) CryptoRush
26) bitlc.net
27) Intersango
28) bitbook.biz
29) PBmining
30) hashprofit
31) CryptoXchange
32) MyCoin
33) Bitomat
34) Bitp.it
35) Brasil Bitcoin Market
36) BTC Buy
37) Btctip
38) Bit-Bank
39) Bitmit
40) Sheep Marketplace
41) hashie.co
42) Moolah
43) Seals with Clubs
44) mcxnow
45) x-bt
46) Justcoin
47) Living Room of Satoshi
48) Satoshi dice
49) Brawker
50) Bitmarket.eu
51) MyBitcoin
52) Bitscalper
53) BS&T
54) FeedZeBirds
55) btcxchange.ro
56) CoinEX.pw
57) AMT
58) HashTrade
59) WBX
60) Coinlenders
61) Paytunia
62) NeoBee
63) HASRA
64) Vekja

thufir of vekja.net

Something else that's interesting is that thufir aka Sam Maloney registered at this forum only 2 weeks before the MyBitcoin scam domain was registered.

What a coincidence that 2 scammers that use the same MO to steal bitcoins would enter the Bitcoin world so early on, within 2 weeks or less of each other???

It's not the download so much as verifying all the signatures in all the blocks as it downloads that takes a long time.

How long is the initial block download typically taking?  Does it slow down half way through or is about the same speed the whole way?

I've thought about ways to do a more cursory check of most of the chain up to the last few thousand blocks.  It is possible, but it's a lot of work, and there are a lot of other higher priority things to work on.

Simplified Payment Verification is for lightweight client-only users who only do transactions and don't generate and don't participate in the node network.  They wouldn't need to download blocks, just the hash chain, which is currently about 2MB and very quick to verify (less than a second to verify the whole chain).  If the network becomes very large, like over 100,000 nodes, this is what we'll use to allow common users to do transactions without being full blown nodes.  At that stage, most users should start running client-only software and only the specialist server farms keep running full network nodes, kind of like how the usenet network has consolidated.

SPV is not implemented yet, and won't be implemented until far in the future, but all the current implementation is designed around supporting it.

In the meantime, sites like vekja.net and www.mybitcoin.com have been experimenting with account-based sites.  You create an account on a website and hold your bitcoins on account there and transfer in and out.  Creating an account on a website is a lot easier than installing and learning to use software, and a more familiar way of doing it for most people.  The only disadvantage is that you have to trust the site, but that's fine for pocket change amounts for micropayments and misc expenses.  It's an easy way to get started and if you get larger amounts then you can upgrade to the actual bitcoin software.

[jjacob]

BTCX India. 

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1054433.0
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/20341/indian-banking-relationships-disappear-bitcoin-exchanges-field-questions-authorities/

[RodeoX]

Its sad to see them fail, but many of those were never going to make it anyway.  

It might be cool to see that list with the reason for failure next to each one. For example Tradehill was a good company which could not find it's way through the regulation. While Silk Road faild because of it's criminal nature.

[gentlemand]

And good riddance to plenty of those on that list. What a pathetic shower of shit much of the bitcoin infrastructure has been so far.

At least the majority of the next wave of deaths will be down to running out of funding rather than being out and out incompetent scum.

[TKeenan]

Its sad to see them fail, but many of those were never going to make it anyway. 

All of them were never going to make it - and then they didn't.

[RodeoX]

Its sad to see them fail, but many of those were never going to make it anyway. 

All of them were never going to make it - and then they didn't.

Haha, yes. I stand corrected.