Owners supposedly both have 23 million eur (each).
+5 million VC.
If they don't reimburse, Bitstamp is probably dead. VC lose 5 million anyway.
Reputation is worth a lot (who wants to be next Mark Karpeles?)
If 5-6 million is all they lost, it's probably managable.
Perhaps they could issue company shares to those who lost BTC.
we'll see.
The Bitstamp owners are likely to have heard about Karples fears for his safety. When Gox went bankrupt people here speculated he would be dead within the year. From the Bitstamp owners point of view it might be worth paying $5 million out of their own pockets even if Bitstamp eventually closes. They would still be rich and not have the fears for their safety that Karples has to live with. I'd be afraid to be in Karples shoes.
its hardly even comparable to put stamp in the same category as gox ,
under karpeles gox "lost" 550,000 btc as well as millions and millions of dollars in cash accounts
and the fat fuck still hasnt seen any punishment that i know of but even if he did
it would probably be a slap on the wrist token sentence for not having tight enough security ........
for that amount of money i would also accept a slap on the wrist and move the coins to some secret wallet
as i suspect he has done .....hel get probably 3-6 months if even .......maybe less
