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Comment Rubbish journalism (Score 2) 53

Just wanted to note that no one in the industry had even heard about this exchange before. It's not a real Bitcoin exchange. It was some sort of pure ponzi scheme that didn't actually even provide any sort of Bitcoin exchange, simply claimed that they do. So no, this was NOT another Mt. Gox. Mt. Gox was an actual Bitcoin exchange and also the largest exchange in from 2010 to 2012. MyCoin wasn't even an actual exchange. Get your facts straight, please!
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Submission + - Bitcoin hits new all-time high of $32

Sabbetus writes: Bitcoin tops its previous all-time high of $31.91 and in doing so it proves to be quite a resilient virtual currency. To the supporters of Bitcoin this does not come as a surprise, since we have seen the likes of WordPress, Reddit and Mega embrace it. Recently Namecheap also confirmed that they will start accepting bitcoins. The new record price was reached on the same day that Mt. Gox, the world's largest Bitcoin exchange, reached an agreement with CoinLab to manage the exchange's operations in the U.S. and Canada.
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Submission + - Bitcoin startup attracts $500,000 in Venture Capital

Sabbetus writes: Seattle based Bitcoin startup CoinLab secured a $500,000 investment from various investors such as Silicon Valley firm Draper Associates and angel investor Geoff Entress. CoinLab is an emerging umbrella group for cultivating and launching innovative bitcoin projects. CEO Vessenes said “if there is a currency that can trade around the world, it’s semi-anonymous, it’s instant, it’s not controlled by government or bank, what’s the total value of that currency? The answer to that is, if it works, it’s gotta be in the billions. It just has to be for all the reasons you might want to send money around the world.” This type of talk is common from Bitcoin enthusiasts but apparently seasoned investors are starting to agree. The Forbes article explains the details of their business plan but in short it has to do with tapping the GPU mining potential of gamers, more specifically gamers of free-to-play games. This would add a new revenue stream for online game companies that are trying to provide free games profitably.
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Submission + - Linode Exploit Caused Theft Of Thousands Of Bitcoins (bitcoinmedia.com) 2

Sabbetus writes: Popular web hosting service Linode had a serious exploit earlier today. Apparently the super admin password for their server management panel was leaked and allowed a malicious attacker to target multiple Bitcoin-related servers. The biggest loss happened to a major Bitcoin mining pool that lost over 3000 BTC, which is currently worth almost 15 000 USD. Now the question is, will Linode compensate for lost bitcoins?

Comment Re:Bizarre and Confusing Summary (Score 2) 208

I could have written a much longer description but I think that the Ars Technica article covers it well. The claim that Mt. Gox is the only other exchange is silly though. There are many exchanges and Tradehill was only slightly bigger than Intersango and Cryptoxchange. Both of these exchanges have started to push their marketing especially at Bitcointalk forums, after this incident: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=63941.0 & https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=63877.0

So that everyone clearly understands, Mt. Gox is by far the biggest exchange. Even though Tradehill was the 2nd biggest exchange, it was tiny compared to Mt. Gox. Both Intersango and Cryptoxchange were almost as big as Tradehill at the time of its demise. This information is available at http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/

I didn't pull anything out of my hat but I could have perhaps added a few more links and a slightly longer description.
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Submission + - Major Bitcoin Exchange Shuts Down (arstechnica.com)

Sabbetus writes: On monday CEO of prominent Bitcoin exchange Tradehill announced that they are shutting down. Ars Technica ran a story on this stating that 'After Monday's news, the currency's value fell from $5.50 to $4.40, a decline of 20 percent.' Tradehill is returning all funds and meanwhile their competitors are fighting over who gets Tradehill's customers.

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