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by dreit1 3199 days ago
I've hear a lot has changed in terms of regulation since 2008. However we shouldn't compare Mt.Gox to BTC, Gox was a centralized institution, so the failure was with it, not with bitcoin. If the people had held their bitcoin privately, which is arguably the "correct" way to hold bitcoin, they would have been fine.

Bitcoin itself is completely auditable in transparent. The system will behave exactly as the code is written.