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Flexcoin The Bitcoin Bank Shuts Down After Losing 896 Bitcoins

March 4, 2014 by Raymond Hackney

Another Bitcoin site has gone bust, Flexcoin which called itself the Bitcoin bank is out of business.

They posted this on their website:

Flexcoin is shutting down.

On March 2nd 2014 Flexcoin was attacked and robbed of all coins in the hot wallet. The attacker made off with 896 BTC, dividing them into these two addresses:

1NDkevapt4SWYFEmquCDBSf7DLMTNVggdu

1QFcC5JitGwpFKqRDd9QNH3eGN56dCNgy6

As Flexcoin does not have the resources, assets, or otherwise to come back from this loss, we are closing our doors immediately.

Users who put their coins into cold storage will be contacted by Flexcoin and asked to verify their identity. Once identified, cold storage coins will be transferred out free of charge. Cold storage coins were held offline and not within reach of the attacker. All other users will be directed to Flexcoin’s “Terms of service” located at “Flexcoin.com/118.html” a document which was agreed on, upon signing up with Flexcoin.Flexcoin will attempt to work with law enforcement to trace the source of the hack.

Updates will be posted on twitter as soon as they become available.

The story is being covered by a few outlets,

Business Insider

Users who put their coins into cold storage will be contacted by Flexcoin and asked to verify their identity. Once identified, cold storage coins will be transferred out free of charge. Cold storage coins were held offline and not within reach of the attacker. All other users will be directed to Flexcoin’s “Terms of service” located at “Flexcoin.com/118.html” a document which was agreed on, upon signing up with Flexcoin.

Flexcoin will attempt to work with law enforcement to trace the source of the hack.

Updates will be posted on twitter as soon as they become available.

It seems unlikely that this will have much effect on the future of Bitcoin.

The Mt. Gox collapse — which was much bigger — was largely shrugged off by the community, which sees the need to become more sophisticated.

The Guardian touched upon:

Flexcoin attempted to impose a more conventional banking system over the top of the bitcoin network, enabling instant free transfers between Flexcoin customers while still allowing them to spend money in the wider bitcoin community.

Just six days ago, the company was boasting that it was unscathed by the closure of MtGox, once the world’s largest bitcoin exchange:

Flexcoin tweeted, “We hold zero coins in other companies, exchanges etc. While the MtGox closure is unfortunate, we at Flexcoin have not lost anything.”

11:52 AM – 25 Feb 2014

Filed Under: Bitcoin

About Raymond Hackney

Raymond is a writer, domain trader and consultant based in Pennsylvania. Raymond is the founder of 3Character.com and TLDInvestors.com.

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Comments

  1. Lance Zeidman says

    March 4, 2014 at 2:32 pm

    Should consider changing TheDomains.com to TheDomainsandBitcoins.com…and Yes- I already know in advance you wont like my comment.

  2. cmac says

    March 4, 2014 at 3:06 pm

    this happens too often. i think most of the time these places are robbing themselves. its not like anyone can do anything about it either.

  3. BrianWick says

    March 4, 2014 at 3:27 pm

    good point cmac
    and somewhere in all this Bernie Madoff has his hand in it

  4. todd says

    March 4, 2014 at 6:59 pm

    1. Open Bitcoin exchange
    2. Transfer a ton of Bitcoins into fraudulent accounts
    3. Say I’m sorry
    4. By the time they figure out what went wrong we’ll be sitting on a beach earning 20 percent.

    That last one is a favorite movie quote from the ultra villain Hans Gruber in DieHard. I am sure you guys remember it so I just had to put it in the list.


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