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Säljarna är nog mer eller mindre utmattade vid det här laget eller har helt lämnat marknaden, eftersom de likt Gardell tror att bitcoin är på väg mot noll eller ett pyttelitet värde.
Det som stör den bilden något är möjligheten till blankning som numera finns, vilken medför att aktörer som inte alls är involverade i bitcoin ändå kan gå in och trycka ner priset..
På kort sikt vore det dåligt men på halvlång och lång sikt bra om en någorlunda stor börs kunde gå omkull snart så att alla förlorade sina bitcoin som de har liggande där. Troligen är det flera börser som de facto tillämpar ett kvotreservsystem. Här är en lista över börser som hade krashat fram till år 2017, där i flera fall användarna blev av med sina bitcoin:
https://www.weusecoins.org/thirty-six-bitcoin-exchanges-stopped-their-operation/
The Bitcoin Market - On February 6, 2010
MtGox - It's’ death spiral began in February 2014
Tradehill - February 13, 2012
Bitcoin-Central
Bitcoinica - On May 11, 2012 Bitcoinica suffered another security incident in which its hot wallet was emptied again, leading to its’ immediate shutdown.
Bitstake
Crypto-Trade - the company closed its doors in January 2015, never to be seen again.
Intersango
FXBTC - Frustratingly, the site closed a day earlier, denying angry customers of their money and no more customer service.
Bitcoin Brasil
BitMarket.eu - After increasingly degraded service, on December 21, 2012, the operator shared that the customer's funds had been used for speculation, and that nearly 20,000 BTC of its customer's funds were lost.
Bitfloor - On September 3, 2012, it was hacked for 24,000 BTC. Operations resumed until April 17, 2013, but when the partner bank closed Bitfloor’s account they were forced to shut down for good.
Bitomat
Britcoin
Vault of Satoshi - The exchange closed its doors on February 5 2015.
Kapiton
WeExchange
UpBit
CoinEX - By Dec 2015 the site went missing.
Cryptorush
McxNOW - Launched in September 2013, McxNOW was a digital currency exchange. The company claimed that all balances earn interest of 25% of all profits. Naturally, the site went missing, claiming a “maintenance period” beginning November 15, 2014.
MintPal - In July 2014, the company reported that it had been hacked, losing a large amount of VeriCoin. In October 2014, the company operating Mintpal, Moolah, said that Mintpal is shutting down. Many users on Bitcoin Talk posted that Mintpal CEO was a scam, reporting missing funds left on MintPal. In February 2015, the sites owner, Ryan Kennedy, was arrested over the theft of 3,700 Bitcoins.
SwissCEX
Prelude
LibertyBit
Comkort
AllCrypt
Coin-Swap
Melotic
BitYes
Yacuna
Virtex
Excoin
Bitspark
Coin.Mx
Harborly
Out of the 36 exchanges in this two were sold to larger companies, living on, if only in essence. Another two lost banking relationships, forcing closure in spite of any potential. 16 gave up the ghost due to financial difficulties, while 13 claim to have been hacked, four of those closures led to criminal convictions. In total, more than 950,000 bitcoins have been stolen from their rightful owners.
"The lesson here is that if you don't control the keys, you don't control the bitcoin. Possession is nine-tenths of the law, and in bitcoin, possession of the keys is ten-tenths of the law. If you don't control the keys anymore, it's not your bitcoin! That lesson will be learned as many times as it needs to."
- Andreas Antonopoulos, Author of Mastering Bitcoin
MtGox - It's’ death spiral began in February 2014
Tradehill - February 13, 2012
Bitcoin-Central
Bitcoinica - On May 11, 2012 Bitcoinica suffered another security incident in which its hot wallet was emptied again, leading to its’ immediate shutdown.
Bitstake
Crypto-Trade - the company closed its doors in January 2015, never to be seen again.
Intersango
FXBTC - Frustratingly, the site closed a day earlier, denying angry customers of their money and no more customer service.
Bitcoin Brasil
BitMarket.eu - After increasingly degraded service, on December 21, 2012, the operator shared that the customer's funds had been used for speculation, and that nearly 20,000 BTC of its customer's funds were lost.
Bitfloor - On September 3, 2012, it was hacked for 24,000 BTC. Operations resumed until April 17, 2013, but when the partner bank closed Bitfloor’s account they were forced to shut down for good.
Bitomat
Britcoin
Vault of Satoshi - The exchange closed its doors on February 5 2015.
Kapiton
WeExchange
UpBit
CoinEX - By Dec 2015 the site went missing.
Cryptorush
McxNOW - Launched in September 2013, McxNOW was a digital currency exchange. The company claimed that all balances earn interest of 25% of all profits. Naturally, the site went missing, claiming a “maintenance period” beginning November 15, 2014.
MintPal - In July 2014, the company reported that it had been hacked, losing a large amount of VeriCoin. In October 2014, the company operating Mintpal, Moolah, said that Mintpal is shutting down. Many users on Bitcoin Talk posted that Mintpal CEO was a scam, reporting missing funds left on MintPal. In February 2015, the sites owner, Ryan Kennedy, was arrested over the theft of 3,700 Bitcoins.
SwissCEX
Prelude
LibertyBit
Comkort
AllCrypt
Coin-Swap
Melotic
BitYes
Yacuna
Virtex
Excoin
Bitspark
Coin.Mx
Harborly
Out of the 36 exchanges in this two were sold to larger companies, living on, if only in essence. Another two lost banking relationships, forcing closure in spite of any potential. 16 gave up the ghost due to financial difficulties, while 13 claim to have been hacked, four of those closures led to criminal convictions. In total, more than 950,000 bitcoins have been stolen from their rightful owners.
"The lesson here is that if you don't control the keys, you don't control the bitcoin. Possession is nine-tenths of the law, and in bitcoin, possession of the keys is ten-tenths of the law. If you don't control the keys anymore, it's not your bitcoin! That lesson will be learned as many times as it needs to."
- Andreas Antonopoulos, Author of Mastering Bitcoin
Jag tycker att det var ett tag sedan man hörde om att någon bitcoinbörs försvann och tog alla bitcoin med sig eller hackades eller dylikt, så det skulle behövas en för att fräscha upp det kollektiva minnet.
Ju fler bitcoin som ligger på centraliserade börser, desto större möjlighet finns det till blankning utan att börsen behöver ta någon större risk för konkurs eller ta ut ockerränta. Jag vet att det finns en hel del, främst nyare bitcoinägare, som förvarar sina bitcoin på till exempel Coinbase -- trots att företaget öppet hävdar att man tar sig rätten att förverka insättarnas bitcoin om man hamnar på obestånd. Om det blev en helt dominerande kultur i bitcoinvärlden att man snarast möjligt ska ta ut sina bitcoin från centraliserade börser, skulle utrymmet för blankning krympa.
Regelrätt utlåning av bitcoin medför samma problem, men den företeelsen torde vara marginell under ett antal år efter de haverier vi har sett å sistone. Se t.ex. följande sedelärande berättelse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfaoAGtTQk (det finns många liknande därute)
Möjligheten till hävstång lär vi däremot få leva med tills fiatvalutorna slutligen har kastats på historiens sophög.
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Senast redigerad av Stopp.Belagg 2022-07-15 kl. 21:59.
Senast redigerad av Stopp.Belagg 2022-07-15 kl. 21:59.
