THELOGICALINDIAN - A Canadian cryptocurrency barter has bankrupt bottomward claiming that a hacker had aloof all the funds But abounding are suggesting that this is annihilation added than an avenue scam
A Scam I Am?
The exchange, MapleChange, opened in May and listed 62 tokens, including Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ethereum. Volume was modest, peaking at $67k, but there were abundant approved users to aggregate a advantageous antithesis sheet. According to some sources, the bulk baseborn in the ‘hack’ was 913 bitcoin (close to $6 million).
Users were analytic MapleChange’s angary as aboriginal as June, as apparent in this bitcointalk appointment thread requesting added advice on the exchange. The acknowledgment from a ahead listed token, solariumcoin, paints a anathema picture, admitting in hardly burst English:
Solariumcoin went on to say that they had already delisted from MapleChange.
Sorry it had to end this way
Was this an authentic anticipation of what was to come, did it bulb the berry of an abstraction in the mind(s) of the MapleChange developer(s), or did the armpit absolutely get hacked? There are several hints that conceivably somebody is actuality beneath than absolutely honest.
The claimed charge to shut bottomward “all of our amusing media” angry suspicions in many. But above-mentioned to this, there was additionally addition adumbration that article was awry.
The antecedent advertisement of the bug and hack, states that MapleChange ‘are in the action of a absolute investigation’. But it additionally states that ‘We are acutely apologetic that it has appear to end like this’, so it seems the aftereffect of the ‘investigation’ had already been decided.
Vigilante Justice
Victims of the collapse (and bodies with too abundant time on their hands) accept already formed a Twitter accumulation alleged maplechang’ed. So far this has angry up links amid the MapleChange CEO and both a mining basin and an credible betray cryptocurrency alleged Weycoin.
They accept alike acquaint pictures that he acclimated on Social media accounts, and the Plenty of Fish chargeless dating website. Best to aloof accumulate on active now… The internet is afterwards him.
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