wow that is a lot of money stolen. these things need to stop if btc is to go far.
The sad part is it's one theft after another, and then people wonder why outsiders feel Bitcoin is a scam. It's because 99% of the Bitcoin-related things ARE scams. Even if you look in the securities section on these forums, you'll find that nearly every business is going to bet at a net loss for perpetuity, and that's excluding those that are clear scams to begin with.
I don't know what do you people expect? We live in a dirty world where people will come face to face to you and try to steal from you. Can we really expect the people will do this less when we allow them to hide behind their computer and to try and steal from the other part of the world? I don't think so.
Bitcoin will just need to be strong enough to bear this weight on its shoulders as well and to win in the end nevertheless. People scammed and will scam in the future, with Bitcoin or without!
With normal scams, people go to prison. With Bitcoin, almost nobody is ever caught due to being anonymous (to an extent). You're comparing two very different animals.
No they don't go always to prison, especially with Internet crimes, but I do agree with what you are saying to some extent. With the Internet came new opportunities for scamming. People steal millions by stealing credit card numbers online. People steal millions by hacking accounts, informations etc. All this happens daily and majority never gets caught and they are still at large.
Authorities are doing their best to protect us. With new technologies come new challenges and people will need to learn to deal with these new situations.
Bitcoin is young, everybody are lost and don't know how to react yet in Bitcoin space, sometimes not even bitcoiners. The same situation is with the authorities.
