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Topic: Bitfinex HACKED - funds stolen ! - page 31. (Read 32160 times)

hero member
Activity: 658
Merit: 500
August 03, 2016, 04:42:38 AM
How stupid is this service or exchanger did they really keeped 120K bitcoins ONLINE? Why not use hardware wallets or paperwallets for a such high sum of money i got the feeling they just try to run away and steal money
legendary
Activity: 840
Merit: 1000
August 03, 2016, 04:33:39 AM
I read more than 80m$ worth of coins stolen. So little of them dumped till now. When this is over we may see below 300$ if that's true.

This will end so badly. Everything that people worked for till now will be dirt. Families will be ruined. So sad.
Usually in cases like these, the coins aren't sold immediately due to everyone trying to track them. But its the speculation and the market sentiments which leads to the crash. The real crash happens later when those coins are actually sold. But I doubt they are sold on exchanges.
sr. member
Activity: 322
Merit: 250
ICO Chicken Dinner :)
August 03, 2016, 04:31:01 AM
Is the $60mm from Bitfinex being used to pump ETC?

That is not very smart of you mr legendary member is it. Lets do some basic numbers, before the hack there was 9k buy support and now after the hack there is around 7k buy support. That is less lol The volume is the same and the price is lower, not something that 120k bitcoin pumps is it.
legendary
Activity: 1470
Merit: 1004
August 03, 2016, 04:25:19 AM
I read more than 80m$ worth of coins stolen. So little of them dumped till now. When this is over we may see below 300$ if that's true.

This will end so badly. Everything that people worked for till now will be dirt. Families will be ruined. So sad.

This is the most important reason not to leave your coins on a exchange, you may end up broke!
Also the saddest part is that people haven't learn yet which exchanges have licence and which dont! Any exchange can go down any time for any reason but they will investigated more by authoritys, so less likely to have any type of drama (aka missing coins, hack, bug, shit you name it!

CoinBreader, you are right. I said about financial licenses a lot. But many people are brainwashed and they don't care about that. I warned about Bitfinex practices on this forum, about their unexisting financial license(insurance), about price manipulation and so so.

Result : almost nobody cares and many people lost MILLIONS. Yes, millions of USD not thousands of usd or hundred thousands of USD. I know individuals who lost "cash" worth of millions; years of tradings, no sleep, no life...just trading and now, they lost everything.


The next will be BTC-e; same prototype.  shady exchanger, no license, no insurance...nothing.





hero member
Activity: 672
Merit: 500
August 03, 2016, 04:19:04 AM
I read more than 80m$ worth of coins stolen. So little of them dumped till now. When this is over we may see below 300$ if that's true.

This will end so badly. Everything that people worked for till now will be dirt. Families will be ruined. So sad.

This is the most important reason not to leave your coins on a exchange, you may end up broke!
Also the saddest part is that people haven't learn yet which exchanges have licence and which dont! Any exchange can go down any time for any reason but they will investigated more by authoritys, so less likely to have any type of drama (aka missing coins, hack, bug, shit you name it!
hero member
Activity: 1078
Merit: 514
August 03, 2016, 04:14:47 AM
Must be exactly cause of that hacking the price for bitcoin jumped down. 60 ml dollars! Shocked that is just unbelievable! How many people lost their money!? I think it shows us that no one exchanger is save enough. I'm holding my bitcoins on Yobit and now I am worry about "what if..?" When the price for bitcoin will be higher I plan to withdraw it on my card.
legendary
Activity: 2856
Merit: 1520
Bitcoin Legal Tender Countries: 2 of 206
August 03, 2016, 04:12:08 AM
we should wait for technical explanation. at the moment it could be everything. also an inside job!
legendary
Activity: 1470
Merit: 1004
August 03, 2016, 04:10:26 AM
The chinesse exchangers are putting the bots(fake transactions) at work very hard. they own miners, they exchange for miners and a low price means the end of them Smiley

so, the price won't go down too fast because it's artificially  sustained by them.
legendary
Activity: 1134
Merit: 1010
BTC to the moon is inevitable...
August 03, 2016, 04:06:39 AM
Welcome to the future!

This is how you 'rob a bank' in the digital age  Wink

with bitcoin a "bank" means you not your exchange site! to to rub a bank means to rub you and your wallet with a keylogger or other ways to steal the private keys from individuals.

bitfinex was just a service run by people who didn't know how to secure 119,000BTC.

i hope they recover from this though, it is a shame to see another gox happening.
sr. member
Activity: 336
Merit: 250
August 03, 2016, 04:01:40 AM
Can someone of the bfx customers , please, check their deposits multisigs ? Mine are nearly zeroed just few month ago.  In general this "event" show up one more time that monopolization and centralisation - are bad.
legendary
Activity: 840
Merit: 1000
August 03, 2016, 03:46:39 AM
Is the $60mm from Bitfinex being used to pump ETC?
We would see if the coins see any action. So far I would think its just people who have realized about the hack and are moving to other coins to not let their investments go down. Just like people do with the dollar and gold.
legendary
Activity: 2212
Merit: 1038
August 03, 2016, 03:41:20 AM
Is the $60mm from Bitfinex being used to pump ETC?
hero member
Activity: 771
Merit: 521
August 03, 2016, 03:32:58 AM
First coinbase and now this. This is why the Blocknet DX will be huge. Nobody will have to rely on middleman exchanges anymore. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=829576.6140

its a sleeping giant and clearly needed.
sr. member
Activity: 282
Merit: 250
August 03, 2016, 03:28:11 AM
I would like to urge everyone owning Bitcoin to verify 3 things:

1) Pls check if your bitcoin provider is well reputed, backed by top class investors and has a strong engineering team
2) Ask them how they store your bitcoin - how much is stored in hot wallet vs. cold storage
3) Do they have 2 factor authentication enabled for all accounts? 

Regards,
Tiyo from BitX
https://bitx.co

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ios app: https://itunes.apple.com/id/app/bitx-wallet/id927362479
legendary
Activity: 883
Merit: 1005
August 03, 2016, 03:25:39 AM
I suspect Bitfinex was using Fractional Reserve banking and just ran out of money.

If your using an online wallet you don't own any bitcoins. All you own is a IOU from an uninsured an unregulated service provider who is controlled by people legally obligated under the law "under threat of criminal prosecution" to protect the shareholders investments over the users money, your money.
legendary
Activity: 1484
Merit: 1029
August 03, 2016, 03:06:56 AM
Update,

the funds stolen are 119,756 btc. that means aprox 60 millions USD

Do you think that Bitfinex will cover this amount and it will business as usual? Smiley

Link me with the address please I need to track it where it ended up.

Wow, that's a lot of money stolen over the last few weeks $60m on the DAO, $60m on Bitfinex, I'm wondering what the next headlines will be!
newbie
Activity: 23
Merit: 0
August 03, 2016, 02:57:59 AM
Update,

the funds stolen are 119,756 btc. that means aprox 60 millions USD

Do you think that Bitfinex will cover this amount and it will business as usual? Smiley

Link me with the address please I need to track it where it ended up.
hero member
Activity: 2828
Merit: 518
August 03, 2016, 02:40:39 AM
I thought Bitfinex has got the bitlicense to operate in the US. So it is legal? Why do you say it is not legal?
legendary
Activity: 2940
Merit: 1083
August 03, 2016, 02:38:00 AM
Where are the damn MEMES?  Grin
Make it a good one for this special event.

119,756 BTC



There it is.  Grin You made me wait for a long time.   Grin This problem will not be forgotten for a long time if Bitfinex will not resolve this issue.
legendary
Activity: 3248
Merit: 1070
August 03, 2016, 02:36:55 AM
I wonder what these people do with all this stolen money...
They live in huge houses near the beach for the rest of their lives and drink fine wine and get hot girlfriends.  What else?

re-invest them to steal even more, like for example creating another scam exchange like bitfinex in 3 months and declare a security hole 1 year later...
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