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Third largest bitcoin exchange...in 2011.

• Synaesthesia 3y ago
  Well the bitcoin supply is limited, so it's quite a big loss.
  • stavros 3y ago
    For them! Due to the way the economy works, destroying money is actually a donation to everyone else who has money (deflation).
    • mjburgess 3y ago
      Still hard to imagine this wasnt ever just laughed out the room immediately
  • Cpoll 3y ago
    It's infinitely divisible, so not in the same sense as the loss of any other limited item. There could be only one Bitcoin in existence and it wouldn't change the utility of the system.
    • pests 3y ago
      How do you send half a sataoshi?
      • ProllyInfamous 3y ago
        Get all the verifier nodes to agree to increase the divisibility of BTC into sub-satoshi (e.g. via a BIP request approval). This will not be necessary for many generations.
• paulddraper 3y ago
  ...with 17,000 BTC. (Valued at 220k USD then, or 700M USD today)
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