$ETH
650,000 $BTC have gone missing – Yes, this amounts to over $74 billion at today’s rate.
The 2014 Mt. Gox collapse still feels unreal to me. One day, the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange was operating normally, and the next day, 850,000 $BTC vanished. Later, around 200,000 BTC were found in an old wallet, but the remaining 650,000 BTC completely disappeared. Just think about today’s price, $74 billion just vanished like that.
Investigators tracked down some stolen coins, and a man named Alexander Vinnik was later arrested for laundering. But the actual hacker? Never caught. Most of the coins are still locked away somewhere, untouched, like the ghosts of Bitcoin past.
$ETH
650,000 $BTC have gone missing – Yes, this amounts to over $74 billion at today’s rate.
The 2014 Mt. Gox collapse still feels unreal to me. One day, the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange was operating normally, and the next day, 850,000 $BTC vanished. Later, around 200,000 BTC were found in an old wallet, but the remaining 650,000 BTC completely disappeared. Just think about today’s price, $74 billion just vanished like that.
Investigators tracked down some stolen coins, and a man named Alexander Vinnik was later arrested for laundering. But the actual hacker? Never caught. Most of the coins are still locked away somewhere, untouched, like the ghosts of Bitcoin past.
$ETH