How is it greedy when a person is robbed? It is the equivalent of your broker going ohh all the cash and shares in your account isn't there later. It is not like people lost their money by making a poor trade. Believe it or not the btc community back then had a lot of trust and morals (at least us poor schmucks lol), and after this event was the rise of the altcoin pump and dumps. Never had coins there, but I have a valid claim from exchanging btc for gox btc at the time, so maybe it will pay off and i'll profit form his benevolence lol (highly doubt it), although admittedly it was me watching my btc value tumble while trying to catch a falling knife lol. The life insurance thing and people who think he has to be afraid of someone coming after him are wrong. That would have happened long ago, as the theft was obviously orchestrated in a way that included anyone powerful, or any of the large btc holders, hence the roger ver thing. BTC wasn't also big with a certain brand of offshore operations at the time as it was still too obscure, that came later.
Not the being robbed part, the mad dash to questionable unregulated online brokers in Russia, Poland and Japan. For god's sake Mt.Gox used to trade magic cards!!! They were trading bitcoin, the magic internet money and greedy people were sending their money in. Specially in the last 3-6 months, the writings were already on the wall, yet people were still funding accounts. Mark already had some criminal past in France, but no, you greedy people trusted him and Tibanne. By the way never send more money to a magic card dealer what you can not afford to lose.
You funny. It bis a public court decision, not a silent movie. Also blockchain... Bitcoins aren't untraceable...
Again, not really people's faults back then, and you have to remember users like myself back then (not that I'm some expert now lol) knew nothing about finance, trading, etc. Most of us were gamers, and/or had libertarian beliefs (why I didn't get directly burned, because i'm paranoid.) Besides those exchanges were what was around. Honestly even coinbase which is probably the most legit has a long history of not allowing people to log on when btc crashes, along with other things. My personal favorite was I recall the operator of bitfinex admitting he trades btc on his own site lol. Granted at the time of the goxxing the crazy new alt coin every other day was well in progress, so a crash was probably inevitable (how people bought alt coins last year and still do is beyond me, but no need to go there.) To be fair all this and specifically watching people buy mara is what spurred me to learn ta, as it is clear people will buy anything and not care in the slightest about logic.
That is not an excuse. If exchanges are sketchy with shady owners, only greedy/desperate/stupid people sign up and take the risk. Who said anybody has to trade bitcoin? Not to mention most people lose money buy trading so just having coins in a cold wallet and hold was a much better and simpler idea. But no, thousands who never traded before saw dollars I mean bitcoins in their eyes and sent their money into fairyland.