I just learned a story about a 'bitcoin investment fund' in a certain Latin American country. The fund took several thousand coins from clients, promising large returns in BTC. Then the owner claimed that the fund had been hacked an all the coins were stolen, and closed the fund. The clients have not yet received their coins back.
What makes the story interesting is that that same person is the owner of that country's main bitcoin exchange. And his clients see nothing wrong with that.
Why is there so much tolerance to dishonesty in the bitcoin community?
Are you speaking about Mercado Bitcoin in Brazil, right?
Well, I personally know the people involved and you are just making wild assumptions. AFAIK the theft of the fund money happened indeed - and the owner of the fund is the OLD owner of the exchange, not the actual one. He sold it.
So, you are reading stories in a forum, confusing them for hard cold facts and then making assumptions. Well done, professor. You are embarrassing yourself again.
About your stupid rhetorical question:in the Bitcoin community there is no more tolerance to dishonesty than in the "fiat community" (lol). HSBC employees and management can calmly walk down the streets without fearing to encounter an angry mob ready to hang them from a tree (same thing is valid for any of the investment banks that made millions of people poorer after the 2008 crisis), Berlusconi has ruled 20 years in Italy while all the population knows he is a thief and probably a "wise guy", the management of the Spanish banks that ruined the country and that had to be rescued with public money is walking away with multi-million bonuses while nobody says nothing, and the vast majority of financial criminals (even the convicted ones) are admired and called "sir" by their neighbors.
This is capitalism, Mr Steffi, and there's always tolerance to making a lot of money, regardless of the means.
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