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Yeah, a lot of people lost their bitcoins in 2014

When the largest bitcoin exchange got hacked. Something like 800k bitcoins went missing. Turns out the guy that ran it was a very shady character to begin with.

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Posted: 11/28/2017 at 5:17PM

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