That Coincheck number is incredible. I don't remember hearing about it.
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The list is likely bs, the exchange seems to have been hacked in 2018 and 500k BTC were worth a lot more than 500 million.
https://fortune.com/2018/01/31/coincheck-hack-how/
Also, where is Cryptopia and others?
yes... there is a lot missing or wrong.
still... that's not the point.
The point is that there are A LOT of failed centralised exchanges and the number never stops growing...
If only there was an alternative to buying or, even worse, keeping bitcoins on a CEX...
Yes thanks. It being Japanese *is* starting to ring bells, so thanks. 500k btc still sounds incredible, is that a calculation of all cryptoccy stolen in btc value? Would make way more sense. Article is blocked.
You mention cryptopia, was that the NZ one? I'm remembering cryptsy also.
I just skipped through the article, it seems it was 500 million in NEM tokens, so whoever made that list did not have a clue what he is doing.
Yea, Cryptopia.co.nz if i remember right. With a recuperation process so complicated that i ended up writing off the loss and not looking back rather than trying to remember the different balances on the account i had several years ago. May they all rot in hell and get vaccinated to a slow death.