Tim, There has been some very high demand for setting up donations with BitCoins. Troubles like the one you're quoting do occur, but there's a difference between a service like an exchange platform and BitCoin itself.
Best, Charles. Le Mon, 18 Nov 2013 09:24:31 -0500, Kracked_P_P---webmaster <[email protected]> a écrit : > > I think with this type of Bad Press and questions, it would be wise > to remove the Bit Coin option from the donation page. > > I do not know what the future of that service will be, but it is "too > shaky" for LO to "promote it" as a way to donate to our cause. > > To be honest, I was never a "fan" of the Bit Coin "service" and did > not think it was a good idea for alternative to regular ways of > "money" transfers between people and organizations/companies. > > > below it an article about theft and fraud of customers' Bit Coin > "money". > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-exchange-gbl-holding-41-billion-vanishes-2013-11 > > > A Bitcoin Exchange Holding $4.1 Million For 1,000 Customers Has > Simply Vanished > Jim Edwards Nov. 12, 2013, 8:41 AM 39,628 37 > > > REUTERS/Jim Urquhart > > > A Chinese Bitcoin exchange that held up to $4.1 million in users' > accounts has gone offline and everyone involved with it has vanished, > according to CoinDesk. > > The GBL exchange claimed to be based in Hong Kong but turns out to > have been headquartered in China. The Hong Kong Standard reports: > > The company appears to have launched in May 2013, with its domain > btc-glb.com registered on 9th May and a post later that month by > Bitcoin Talk forum user zhaoxianpeng promoting the site. > > Some mainlanders went to the IFC office listed on its website, but > this turned out to be a false address. > > Fourteen of them made a report to the Hong Kong police. > > WantChinaTimes notes that GBL had not obtained any of the usual > business licenses required to operate a financial services company. > Bitcoin banks and exchanges have a habit of disappearing, the WCT > says: > > Research conducted by Southern Methodist University assistant > professor Tyler Moore and Carnegie Mellon University assistant > professor Nicolas Christin found that 18 of the 40 Bitcoin trading > platforms set up in the past three years had closed, including > TradeHill, which was once the second largest in terms of transaction > volume. > > Moreover, 13 of the discontinued services closed without any prior > notice, while the remaining five were forced to shut down following > hacker attacks. Only six of them were known to have offered refunds > to users. > > Business Insider noted just a few days ago that an Australian Bitcoin > bank, "Tradefortress," closed with $1 million in Bitcoin funds > missing. The bank turned out to be operated by an 18-year-old boy who > lived in a block of apartments in Hornsby, a suburb of Sydney. > > -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-founder, The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint Mobile Number: +33 (0)6 98 65 54 24. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
