{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub17ty4mumkv43w8wtt0xsz2jypck0gvw0j8xrcg6tpea25z2nh7meqf4qgyd","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub17ty4mumkv43w8wtt0xsz2jypck0gvw0j8xrcg6tpea25z2nh7meqf4qgyd","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2014-04-07\n📝 Original message:\u003e\n\u003e My guess is that a large number of users have lost interest after they\n\u003e lost their money in MtGox. The 24th of February coincides with the\n\u003e \"final\" shutdown\n\n\nSigh. It would not be surprising if MtGox has indeed dealt the community a\ncritical blow in this regard. TX traffic is down since then too:\n\nhttps://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions-excluding-popular?timespan=60days\u0026showDataPoints=false\u0026daysAverageString=1\u0026show_header=true\u0026scale=0\u0026address=\n\nJudging from comments and the leaked user db, it seems a lot of well known\npeople lost money there   (not me fortunately). I wish I could say people\nhave learned but from the size of the deposit base at Bitstamp they clearly\nhave not. A lot of Bitcoin users don't seem to be ready to be their own\nbank, yet still want to own some on the assumption everyone else either is\nor soon will be. So it's really only a matter of time until something goes\nwrong with some large bitbank again, either Bitstamp or Coinbase.\n\nSome days I wonder if Bitcoin will be killed off by people who just refuse\nto use it properly before it ever gets a chance to shine. The general\npublic doesn't distinguish between \"Bitcoin users\" who deposit with a third\nparty and the real Bitcoin users who don't.\n-------------- next part --------------\nAn HTML attachment was scrubbed...\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20140407/a7331cc1/attachment.html\u003e"}