Hong Kong's MyCoin Disappears With Up To $387 Million, Reports Claim
Reports are emerging from Hong Kong that local bitcoin exchange MyCoin has shut its doors, taking with it possibly as much as HK$3bn ($386.9m) in investor funds. If true, the supposed losses are a staggering amount, although this estimate is based on the company's own earlier claims that it served 3,000 clients who had invested HK$1m ($129,000) each. For perspective, bitcoin's entire market cap today stands at around USD$3bn. The issue came to light on Friday when about 30 people claiming to be victims of the company's actions petitioned a local member of the Legislative Council, Leung....
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Reports out of Hong Kong indicate that the MyCoin Exchange has just closed, locking out more than three thousand large investors. The closure has occurred almost one year to the day after the world's largest Bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, closed off all exchange withdrawals on February 7th, 2014. That took almost 750,000 investor's Bitcoins with it, plus 100k of the exchange's cache. This sudden exchange closure has a potential combined value of three billion Hong Kong Dollars, which is equivalent to about $387 Million USD. MyCoin happens almost exactly one year after Mt. Gox. The investors....
When the Chinese Ponzi scheme MyCoin vanished without a trace, stealing investment money from patrons across the board, many people went to the Hong Kong police first and foremost. MyCoin stole their money, and they want it back. Also Read: Hong Kong Bitcoin Exchange MyCoin "Lost" $387 Million of Customers' Money. MyCoin was supposed to be a bitcoin exchange and gathered enough interest to claim 3,000 customers investing $128,966 each. They made sure to leave no paper trail, as often happens with bitcoin scams. When they left, citizens of Hong Kong that invested were without any recourse....
Bitcoin in the Headlines is a weekly look at global bitcoin news, analysing media coverage and its impact. Bitcoin has been hung out to dry many times before in the media as part of reports that supporters argue often overemphasise its involvement in criminal activities. Its reputation often suffers due to the lack of information - or misinformation - available. If the Silk Road Trial did not do enough to put bitcoin under scrutiny, the recent scandal at Hong Kong bitcoin exchange MyCoin certainly fueled new skepticism around the digital currency. What was said about bitcoin this week and....
It has been found out that the losses faced by the MyCoin customers were exaggerated in their initial estimates of $300m+ USD. According to The Hong Kong Commercial Crime Bureau (CCB), the earlier reported amount was entirely miscalculated. The agency issued fresh reports that spoke of 43 victimized investors that might have tapped out between $HK50,000 to $HK1.5 million before the oldfangled Ponzi company disappeared. That estimates the total loss amount to be near $8 million, versus the whopping $387 million that was earlier reported by Hong Kong press. The estimate has clearly been....
MyCoin was one of the biggest scams to hit the shores of Hong Kong this year. The alleged bitcoin exchange based out of Hong Kong was in fact an elaborate Ponzi scheme that successfully managed to rip off over $387 million dollars in customer investments after they shut shop overnight earlier this year. Many South East Asian and Chinese investors were victims of this Ponzi scheme, which has got the police forces in multiple countries conducting their own investigations to ensure justice is served. Hong Kong was the first to counter some success in March after the cops there managed to....