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MyBitcoin was the online wallet service a lot of people used back then. Me being one of them. The site was reportedly "hacked" or the owner of the site pulled a scam and ran off with half of the bitcoins. I can't find any information on the amount of bitcoins that were stolen in that incident but you can make some rough calculations, the site housed something like 50,000 accounts and each account had anywhere from 100 to 25,000 bitcoins each. Bruce Wagner was believed to have a part in the scam, he promoted the hell out of the service, he was a big supporter and early adopter of bitcoin so he had a ton of bitcoins to begin with, even had his own little bitcoin show and everything.
There have been scams on SilkRoad also where vendors have achieved 99% positive feedback and became the most reputable vendor on the site (Tony76), then up and vanished after collecting customers bitcoins for a few weeks and not sending the product. The moderators said he had stolen around $250,000 worth of bitcoins.
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