Well, when you buy some Apple stock, you become owner of a slice of a huge company, that makes 70'000 USD of profit every second, by manufacturing and selling more than 10 million high-quality computers and smatrphones per month, that people literally give a kidney for.   Whereas, when you buy a bitcoin....

This video has been posted to reddit as being another MyCoin.hk convention:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGT3QL5VWPk

It says "MyBitCoin" in the opening shots and many places, but on T-Shirts (mostly in the second half) it says "MyCoin" only.  

There are a lot more than 30 (or 43) people there.  One of the overhead shots shows some large amounts, over 300 M (HKD, USD, CNY, or what?)

If it is MyCoin.hk, there may be a lot more than 43 victims.

If it is not MyCoin.hk, what venture is that?  The overhead texts are in Chinese...

CoinTelegraph video, posted 2014-05-29
Bitcoin vs USD Exchange predictions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzmzQja7a2M

No need to read the graphs for that: the number of coins that they held and bought, day by day, was tabulated by @jl2012.  See page 1 of this thread.  Only the last plot, the Est. Accum. Investment, is not in the table; but it is easily computed from it.

Some interesting tidbits about mining and ATMs:

Bitcoin Trending Issues Explored at First Satoshi Roundtable
Bitcoin Magazine, Ellen Sullivan on February 12, 2015
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/19281/bitcoin-trending-issues-explored-first-satoshi-roundtable/

Didin't you know that Gleb Gamow is the new account of Phinnaeus Gage?

For those who care about SecondMarket's BIT fund, here is a plot of data tabulated by @jl2012:


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The first four plots are taken from the tables in that thread.   The red line is the share value, equal to the USD market price of 0.1 BTC, by definition.

The fifth plot ("Est. Accum. Investment", purple) was computed by me: it is the estimated net dollar amount that was invested by clients, assuming that each change from one day to the next was either all investment or (rarely) all liquidation.  With this assumption, since the foundation until today, clients appear to have have invested ~68 M USD in the fund, while the value of all the bitcoins held by it is ~30 M USD.  Recall that the fund has suspended redemptions (withdrawals, liquidations) since 2014-10-29.

Note the four large steps last November, corresponding to 6000-7000 BTC each.  These atypical investments may be due to a single investor.  I wonder if they are the cause or consequence of the small rise in price at that time.

Here is an update of the plot of @jl2012's data that I posted last April:


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The first four plots are taken from the posted tables.  

The fifth plot ("Est. Accum. Investment", purple) was computed by me: it is the estimated net dollar amount that was invested by clients, assuming that each change from one day to the next was either all investment or (rarely) all liquidation.  With this assumption, since the foundation until today, clients appear to have have invested ~68 M USD in the fund, while the value of all the bitcoins held by it is ~30 M USD.

Note the four large investments last November, corresponding to 6000-7000 BTC each.

But, as noted above the table, some countries are also international creditors, and they may have negative net debt.

The note claims that Italy is one such country.  That would be cruel, because it would means that Italian taxpayers have to skip lunch to pay interest to foreign banks, and non-Italians have to sell their grandmas to pay interest to Italian banks; whereas they could do what the French once did and get done with it.  

Keynesian economics implies government spending at the base of the economy, not making debts.  The spending can be financed by taxes, even inflation tax.  Borrowing from banks and later bailing them out are the opposite of Keynesian policies.  It is usually neocon/monetarist governments who build up unpayable national debts, hold the bank profits to be more sacred than salaries and pensions, and make banks richer by imposing "austerity" on the rest of the population.

SR was much bigger and involved more serious crimes; the investigation started in 2012 maybe, they arrested Ross in early Oct/2013, and the trial concluded in late Jan/2015 (at least 16 months later). 

The FTC started investigating BFL sometime in 2014, it seems, and raided them in Sep/2014, not even 5 months ago.  Give it time.

They spelled their name wrong on the letterhead.  It happens.  Try "Robin Williams" (formerly "Mork & Mindy Attorneys LLP")

And of course it is not the lawyer who COMMANDS with a plain letter, it is the Judge, through a court order.

Isn't a contract void before the law, if it specifies illegal activities? 

Many users have stopped posting on this forum over this last year.

Yeah, 43 victims so far, may not get to 100.

Mark claimed that MtGOX had more than a million users, but when the leaked database was analyzed, it was found that only 70'000 accounts were minimally active.  So his numbers were bloated by a factor of 15 at least.   If the same factor holds here, it would be 200 accounts.

By the way, here is a video that seems to be a 2014-03-12 congress of MyCoin.hk clients:
http://my.tv.sohu.com/us/201860874/69946081.shtml

The Westerner with grey hair presumably is William Dennis Atwood, the vanished CEO of MyCoin.kh's parent company.

EDIT: I counted 7x8 tables with 8-10 chairs each, so there were about 450 people in that event.

Indeed, so far there are 43 confirmed victims. 

Maybe there will be a 100 or so in total.

This video appears to show a MyCoin.hk convention in 2014:
http://my.tv.sohu.com/us/201860874/69946081.shtml

Given the number of atendees in that event, the claim of 3000 victims now seems more credible.

The gray-haired Westerner may be William Dennis Atwood, the director of the parent company who seem to have left shortly before MyCoin.hk collapsed. 

Is there any question mark in it?

Thanks!