By the way, has anybody received any communication from Bitcoin Consultancy regarding the refund requests? I have filled one on the 16 but haven't heard anything yet.
I haven't heard anything yet apart from an email acknowledgement of my claim.
Not cool. A timeplan, some updates, anything would be good. Is it already time to call you Intersango guys scammers again? I'm getting very pissed at this wall of non-communication. It's my money. It does not belong to you guys, and you messed it up. Follow through with your responsibility. Don't fuck up Bitcoin for me and apparently 5000 others. What other options to speed up the process are left?
Bitcoinica is just doing people a favor by providing an object lesson in 'counterparty risk'. People can (sometimes) conjure up some pixels on their monitor stating that they have NNN.NNN BTC...and they believed it. What they actually have is a loose promise that a counterparty (Bitcoinica and it's nebulous owners) will give them up to that number of BTC or $$$ equiv if they ask for them.
It amazes me that so many people are so anti-Bitcoin in that they cannot except what it is and love it for it's unusual strengths. A life-time of training under our current monetary solutions has had it's effect I guess.
Thank you for your kind words. Believe me, I will take it to heart and never trust a Bitcoin related business again with any substantial amount of coin/cash.
good one.
