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Old 04-12-2013, 08:15 AM  
dyna mo
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Sunday, June 19, 2011

MTGox DB got leaked. . .


In 2011 they had a database stolen by a contractor. It was used to crash the market (which had already been headed down for ~1-2 weeks from the all time high). There was a huge sell-out of bitcoins this afternoon. (6/19/11)

Bitcoin is far too risky of a business to just take on new big business partners without a solid prior relationship.
Think about it, in one swoop $100,000,000, or more, could vanish without a trace if their servers fell into the wrong hands. There's nothing quite like that outside of Bitcoin.
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