aurumpotest

> The simple fact that it took Mt. Gox several years to realize that they were missing 744,408 bitcoins, the equivalent of 6% of the world’s supply of bitcoin, worth 365 million dollars is mind-boggling.

I didn't realise they'd been missing for several years - is this true/proven? Does anyone have any other info on that?

...I didn't think that one through.

Well, yes, to a lot of people - both those who lost money in the affair (some people vast amounts), and also to anyone interested in following the development of BTC - if this was theft, how can we prevent repeat incidents to reassure potential Bitcoin buyers; if it was a failure in the technology, what can we do to repair that to make Bitcoin more secure, or if there was some government or official organisations involved, why did they interfere and what're they up to?

As she said on stackexchange, she was forced to marry her husband, who is 15 years older than she is, by her family. So I'd guess it's not as simple as that.