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so someone got away with 740,000 bitcoins? at $500 per bitcoin, would that be the largest robbery ever?
by dharma1 13y ago
so someone got away with 740,000 bitcoins? at $500 per bitcoin, would that be the largest robbery ever?
- tragic 13y agoIt would depend if you include large-scale bank frauds as 'robberies'. Or, indeed, if the 740k BTC all went to one person/organisation, rather than a lot of opportunists.
- rst 13y agoRogue traders at conventional financial institutions (Nick Leeson at Barings; Jerome Kerviel at Societe Generale) each cost their employer over a billion dollars, but they didn't keep the money. So, if the perp here got away with all the stolen BTC, it's big. Even if not, it's up there...