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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blaubart, post: 1684046, member: 37498&quot;]Wow!&nbsp; Nice link there Juan.&nbsp; From that link, I added up all the losses and came up with about $112 million.&nbsp; Based on the number of bitcoins stolen and the number of bitcoins currently in circulation, I figure a <i>minimum</i> of 5% of bitcoins have been stolen in the past two years.&nbsp; That percentage is actually a lot higher because there weren&#039;t as many bitcoins in circulation two years ago as there are today.</p><p><br /></p><p>When you consider that the people who lost their Bitcoins in those incidents have ZERO recourse to recover their assets, I think they might disagree with you on how &quot;safe&quot; bitcoins are.</p><p><br /></p><p>ETA: &quot;20 thefts&quot; sounds minimal.&nbsp; But $112 million of a total of what is now $2 billion in total assets, that&#039;s a different story.&nbsp; If all the dollars currently deposited in various financial institutions in the US had 5% of their deposits stolen, that would be about $2.5 trillion.&nbsp; Nobody except the government can steal that much money.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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