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Offline Stouse49

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Cryptsy, GoldCoin's first exchange, is bankrupt
« on: January 15, 2016, 09:02:50 PM »
http://www.coindesk.com/cryptsy-bankruptcy-millions-bitcoin-stolen/

The exchange alleges in a newly released blog post that it was the target of a hack in July 2014, an incident that it said cost it approximately 13,000 BTC ($7.5m at the time) and approximately 300,000 LTC (then $2.08m).

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Re: Cryptsy, GoldCoin's first exchange, is offline
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2016, 06:20:48 PM »
Another strike in general confidence against digital currency. It should be a loss of confidence against the exchange(s) but the general public, heck even those very involved with digital currency will have a hard time separating the two. A sad day...

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Re: Cryptsy, GoldCoin's first exchange, is bankrupt
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2016, 07:44:08 AM »
I ve also read a few things about Cryptsy , last information for me was : " Lucky Number 7 coin " implemented a malicious software snippet into the Coin Software and infected the Exchange.

- So other Exchanges will eventually only list coins which are "Open Source" so they can check/proof that there is no malicious software in the Client .