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'Disappeared'. I'd love to see an accountant claim that all their profit 'Disappeared' because of a bug in their accounting software.

• psykovsky 13y ago
  LOL. It's Bitcoin. BTC doesn't disappear. It MUST be in the blockchain.
  • pjc50 13y ago
    It's entirely possible for BTC to be in the blockchain but sent to an unspendable address, i.e. "lost forever"
    • psykovsky 13y ago
      It's still there. It didn't disappear.
      • Consultant32452 13y ago
        If I delete my wallet and all the backups, it might still be in the blockchain but it's effectively gone forever because it can never be spent.
    • danielweber 13y ago
      People have tracked the addresses where an entity (very likely to be MtGox) transferred funds to prove that they had lots of bitcoins, and they haven't been moved from that address since then.
      • FireBeyond 13y ago
        If insider “malfeasance” is the true cause, it just boils down to “who is more patient, those who have lost some funds, or the guy sitting on 700,000 BTC and just needs to wait for this to blow over”?