This is relevant as it makes iXcoin, a twin of BTC, an even more likely candidate for a replacement or competing coin against BTC.
Gox report suggests 744,000 BTC were "lost" due to people being forced to sell out of fear of losing all their coins. I've been saying this since last year - if the govt and banks don't own BTC already, they will engineer a way to so so before it reaches critical mass later this year.
I also said that they will get rid of more Bitcoin foundation board members and replace them with NSA, FED Puppets.
So here's a simple equation: What does 600,000 SilkRoad Bitcoins + 744,000 Mt Gox Bitcoins + 2 Board Seats (in just 30 days, and more coming very soon) equal?
It equals a complete and total Government [and Fed] Takeover of Bitcoin before this Xmas.
I've been saying this since last year and was called crazy. This has been engineered: Shrem, Karpeles, Mt Gox, etc, it's a Bitcoin Power Grab - the US must know China and Russia are secretly amassing Bitcoin for a Takeover.
So now iXcoin truly stands alone: A true Bitcoin twin with more coins out (more liquidity), a far larger and even distribution, no bad criminal history, no top executive corruption and now you can add: No suspicion of a government, Fed and Wall Street takeover.
If we had money for a media Blitz we could really do some Van Damage with this kind of information. Bitcoin is quickly starting to look like the Fiat it was supposed to replace: Damaged and Corrupt. Cause once the Fed owns enough board seats they will GUARANTEED alter the BTC Protocol and really do a number on it.
How many more Bitcoin Foundation seats does the Fed need to steal and extort before they have enough votes?
Expect more Bitcoin Foundation Board seats to be vacated in the next 30-60 days!
The way I see it, does Ixcoin really need to blitz the media? The media will blitz Ixcoin. 30 days, 60 days, 360 days? It's a matter of when not if. Makes no difference to me.
Coins are a means to an end which is secure, non-replicable value storage.
Something I laugh about every day now is ix. Trading y coin for z coin is a marketing technique which disenfranchises people from what the technology itself is worth. It's frequently re-stated how money is only worth what the market values it. Yet often overlooked is the irony in Bitcoin's total dominance of this new industry in light of that fact.
Respect to the devs for having the gall to pull such a thing as IXC off.
Direct. Fork. What's so hard to understand?