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Just goes to show that the principal type of actor around bitcoins is a criminal. Bitcoins are either used for scamming people, extortion, money-laundering or in this case, running a dodgy outfit and running off with the money. I'm afraid I'm going to have to shout again, like I've posted several times before, to numerous thumbs-up: THERE IS NO KNOWN LEGITIMATE REAL-WORLD APPLICATION FOR BITCOINS OR OTHER CRYPTOCURRENCY!!!