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$500,000 Worth of Bitcoins Stolen

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the good-luck-with-that dept.

olsmeister writes "A Bitcoin user allegedly has had $500,000 worth of Bitcoins stolen from him. A hacker supposedly gained access to the user's home computer and managed to get the user's wallet.dat file, which contained the cryptographic keys that allowed him to drain the user's balance."

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  1. $500,000 in bit coin is almost .... by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 0, Troll

    $500,000 in bit coin is worth almost 8, yes eight, repeat eight US Dollars.

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    sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
  2. Re:Brilliant... by whiteboy86 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Eh, what kind of moron keeps $500K in inflation burdened fiat currency? BitCoin is the best, perfectly scarse, value of BitCoin is increasing from day 0 and only goes north over time, a great deflational currency, a good diversification and investment right next to brick of gold.