<story><title>MtGox.com is offline</title><url>https://www.mtgox.com/?dead</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guelo</author><text>Pretty good Ponzi. Not as impressive as Bernie Maddof&amp;#x27;s, but extra points for the tech angle.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmomo</author><text>I am not aware of any indication that this was a ponzi scheme. Saying that it was, without evidence, is misinformation.&lt;p&gt;The loss of coins was unintentional on the behalf of MtGox. It may have been stupid that basic abc123 auditing would have probably revealed that there was a problem months&amp;#x2F;years ago, but evil has not been shown at this point in time.</text></comment>
<story><title>MtGox.com is offline</title><url>https://www.mtgox.com/?dead</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guelo</author><text>Pretty good Ponzi. Not as impressive as Bernie Maddof&amp;#x27;s, but extra points for the tech angle.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colinbartlett</author><text>I would say quite a bit more impressive as Madoff did the same thing that&amp;#x27;s been done hundreds of times before: take money and promise huge returns.&lt;p&gt;Here we have a company that took money and let the &amp;quot;investors&amp;quot; fight it out amongst themselves.</text></comment>