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Most of the author's points are silly. I was a customer of Bitfinex, and I lost a significant sum of money in the hack, but they paid me back. I couldn't be hap
by darawk 9y ago
Most of the author's points are silly. I was a customer of Bitfinex, and I lost a significant sum of money in the hack, but they paid me back. I couldn't be happier with their handling of it. I'm upset that their poor security practices led them to get hacked in the first place, but once it happened, their handling was pretty ideal. I don't know anyone who was a customer of theirs and doesn't approve of how they handled it, and I know several others that were impacted by the hack.
- calcifer 9y agoSo you think the author's very intricately written, detailed arguments are "silly" and all you can offer in retort is an anecdote about how you weren't effected by the Bitfinex hack (which was a tiny part of the author's argument).
- CryptoPunk 9y agoThere are a lot of lies in the article, and the rest is an intricate hit piece on privacy rights, with the false equivalence between privacy and anarchy/criminality (e.g. the idea that 'only criminals have something to hide'). Ironically the author protects the privacy of his contributors at the end of the article.
- darawk 9y agoI started writing a detailed rebuttal and debunking of the author's points, but then I noticed others had done it already, so I didn't waste my time. Suffice it to say that many of the things he says simply aren't true, and for the rest, his reasoning is poor. For details, you can read other posts in this comment thread.
- prostoalex 9y agoAre your funds still at Bitfinex or did you successfully exit?
- darawk 9y agoSome of my funds are, some i've moved to other exchanges. Not because I don't have confidence in them, just because there were opportunities on those exchanges that weren't on Bitfinex. But I have absolute confidence in my ability to withdraw however much I please from my BFX account whenever I want.
- jamiek88 9y agoAre those funds in fiat in your bank account? Or are they Cryptsy points on the exchange?
- darawk 9y agoMy funds have been (partially) moved to other exchanges. I regularly withdraw money from Bitfinex though, and it has never been a problem.