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Ask HN: How many bitcoins did you have in your mtgox wallet when it shut down?
Also i would like to ask HN users whose bitcoins are stuck/lost in mtgox wallets, what are you planning to do regarding the situation on mtgox?
- endriju 13y agoI lost 2.5 btc. If someone with better understanding of the situation on mtgox could answer the other question, it will be very welcome.
- valarauca1 13y agoI lost 1.5BTC I purchased as a 'long term' investment or even to use them when BTC became usable. Now I guess their gone.
- jlt 13y agoI, unfortunately, lost 58.2 BTC.
- joshdance 13y agoSorry. That is the most I have heard.
- Avalaxy 13y agoThen you haven't been to Reddit. There's a guy there who lost 4000-ish coins.
- binxbolling 13y agoThat really sucks, and you have my sympathy. When/how did you first find out, and if you don't mind me asking, how have you been taking it so far?
- jlt 13y agoThanks. Found out this morning, when I came back from a vacation. It sucks, but it's nothing I can't rebuild.
- bennyg 13y agoIf you don't mind me asking, at what price did you buy them at?
- jlt 13y agoI didn't; I mined them. It doesn't bother me immensely, as the total amount of coins I have mined amounts to 1,987.
- binxbolling 13y agoYou have... a million dollars worth of bitcoin? Goddamn.
- blueskin_ 13y ago0. BTC that are in some service aren't in your own wallet and so aren't secure.
- endriju 13y agoWell, security is relative. On mtgox, they were more secure to price volatility, since you could sell them any time. But how can one be sure if any service is secure to the theft.
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- gesman 13y ago0. I used to mine bitcoins and have them sent to MtGox (in tiny fractions of course) but stopped doing it long before as this process became too inefficient.
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- codemonkeymike 13y ago0, Because I bought my BTC on Bitstamp and then put them in a private wallet.
- KingMob 13y ago0. Mt. Gox was a publicly visible target. My laptop is much less visible. (Not that it matters, I sold off all my coins last August.)
- Avalaxy 13y agoAh not much, around 1.7 bitcoins. Bought them pretty cheap (<$300) in the recent weeks because I wanted to take the bet. Turned out I lost the bet. But that's not a big deal, I made around 1 bitcoin profit through btc.sx.
- mtgoxloser 13y agoUnfortunately more than $500,000 in USD.
- endriju 13y agoI am sorry. This is more money then most people earn in their lifetime. I hope your other investments are safe and doing good.
- mtgoxloser 13y agoLike many other people, I had been trying to withdraw for months. This represents more than half of my Bitcoin ventures, but fortunately I was able to afford this loss.
- dholowiski 13y ago0. Mine are all in cold storage, where any sizable amount of Bitcoin should be.