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		redog on Aug 24, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I'm Putting All My Savings into Bitcoin (2011) There was nothing inherently wrong with Mt. Gox as a place to buy BTC. It was trading it and storing it on Gox that got you burned. I lost 0.6 BTC because I was planning on margin trading some but that was only a fraction of my holdings at the time.

Bang2Bay on Aug 24, 2020 [–]

what happened to the lost money? it was worth 450 M bucks then. probably a lot more today. was it ever recovered by end users?

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