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MtGox Finds 200,000 Bitcoins In Old Wallet

Posted by Soulskill on from the left-it-in-their-other-cryptopants dept.

thesandbender writes: "Today brings news that MtGox has 'found' 200,000 Bitcoins in a 'forgotten' wallet that they thought was empty (PDF). The value of the coins is estimated to be $116 million USD, which happens to cover their $64 million USD in outstanding debts nicely and might offer them the chance to emerge from bankruptcy. There is no explanation yet of why the sneaky thieves that 'stole' the bitcoins used a MtGox wallet to hide them."

12 of 227 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Smelling more fishy every day. by B33rNinj4 · · Score: 5, Funny

    All we need is for MtGox to "disappear" after a tragic fall off a sailboat...only to return with amnesia later on...and begin a romantic relationship with his nighbor who actually turns out to be his unknown sister.

  2. Reminds me of the time... by jittles · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh I know how that is. The other day I put on one of my old winter coats from years ago and found 500,000 bitcoins in the pocket. It was completely unexpected. I used it to buy a pizza.

    1. Re:Reminds me of the time... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Or a thousandth of a pizza...

  3. Re:Smelling more fishy every day. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's autobiographical.

  4. Re:Smelling more fishy every day. by hawkinspeter · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...aaand it's gone!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DT7bX-B1Mg/

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    You're a temporary arrangement of matter sliding towards oblivion in a cold, uncaring universe
  5. Check behind the fridge by Hognoxious · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm going to check behind the fridge and under the couch.

    I hear someone's lost an airliner.

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    Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
  6. Re:Smelling more fishy every day. by Marxist+Hacker+42 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Every single soap opera ever written.

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    SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
  7. Re:Smelling more fishy every day. by Joce640k · · Score: 3, Funny

    Aka: "Never attribute to malice that which be adequately explained by stupidity".

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    No sig today...
  8. Re:Smelling more fishy every day. by Marginal+Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Darn, I thought it was as an episode of "Arrested Development" I hadn't seen yet. Maebe not.

  9. Re:Smelling more fishy every day. by Mr0bvious · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, no, popular cultures also grow in basements..

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    Never happened. True story.
  10. Re:Smelling more fishy every day. by Richard_at_work · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry, I left a parentheses open in my last post and its bugging the hell out of me. So heres the closing one. )

    I apologise whole heartedly for all of the teeth-nashing this has caused.

  11. Re:Smelling more fishy every day. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    In that same spirit, here's the g you missed out of 'gnashing' ;)

    g