The Guardian | Dec 7, 2017 | Bitcoin: $64m in cryptocurrency stolen in 'sophisticated' hack, exchange says | .. Mining marketplace NiceHash suspends operations while it co-operates with authorities over ‘professional attack’, urging users to change passwords .. | Blogger: "I TOLD YOU SO".. Bitcoin is a nothing more than a fad or pyramid scheme style scam, according to billionaire investor Howard Marks. ZeroHedge: EXPOSED: The real creator of Bitcoin is likely the NSA as One World Currency (The creator of Bitcoin is officially a name, “Satoshi Nakamoto” – very few people believe that it was a single male from Japan).. First, traders at top bitcoin exchange Bittrex claim they have no access to their $1 billion of cryptocurrency or processes of payments per day. Next, top three banks in Denmark, deny trading bitcoins (money laundering rules - dark web criminal trading platforms) and former GoLDMaN SLaCKS top brass, Nordea's chief executive Casper von Koskull, and alike, jokes and ridiculed cryptocurrency (which is expected from Wall Street Banks).. FCC warns In addition to the difficulty of reclaiming bitcoin wins, there are certain pitfalls associated with owning bitcoins. This is the warning from the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority, which has again been warned against bitcoin investments over the past few weeks. According to the regulatory authorities, consumers must be aware that bitcoins are beyond the reach of the authorities, so if you lose your bitcoins for example because of a hacking attack or simply lose access to the digital bank boxes, where you can store bitcoins, there's no help to retrieve. Perhaps you should have listen to Niklas Nikolajsen, left Denmark, to create his own company in Switzerland, first danish bitcoin billionaire and bitcoin broker & trustee?.. I still know what you did last summer -- Tracing Ethereum and Bitcoin? Darknet’s Two Biggest Marketplaces are Busted - summer of 2017, On July 16, CCN published a development on what happened to the biggest darknet marketplace, AlphaBay, after it was down for over 10 days. At the time, reports suggested that authorities managed to raid its servers in Canada and the U.S., and arrest its alleged admin Alexander Cazes, a Canadian national, in Thailand, who was then found dead in his cell. The operation that took down AlphaBay was dubbed “Bayonet”, and has previously been covered by CCN... |

 NiceHash said approximately 4,700 bitcoin were stolen. Photograph: Dado Ruvic/Reuters

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Zerohedge has kept track how long it took bitcoin to surpass key milestones in its growth:

$0000 - $1,000: 1789 days
$1,000 - $2,000: 1271 days
$2,000 - $3,000: 23 days
$3,000 - $4,000: 62 days
$4,000 - $5,000: 61 days
$5,000 - $6,000: 8 days
$6,000 - $7,000: 13 days
$7,000 - $8,000: 14 days
$8,000 - $9,000: 9 days
$9,000 - $10,000: 2 days
$10,000 - $11,000: 1 day
$11,000 - $12,000: 6 days
$12,000 - $13,000: 17 hours
$13,000 - $14,000: 4 hours
$14,000 - $15,000: 10 hours
$15,000 - $16,000: 5 hours
$16,000 - $17,000: 2 hours
$17,000 - $18,000: 10 minutes