Why anyone would use an online wallet is beyond me. Yeah your personal computer could be hacked, but a website with thousands of wallets and millions of coins is a much larger target.
If you're day-trading, it's faster to stay on an online wallet. If your coins are offline, you may have to wait anywhere from an hour to more than a day for confirmations before you can use them online. When Litecoin prices started climbing today, I had to quickly get my Litecoin client up... resynced and send some coins to btc-e.com and wait for _six_ confirmations on the blockchain before I could sell/trade them. I'm just lucky I didn't miss the spike.
That said, I'd rather risk missing out on peaks & valleys than suddenly losing thousands due to these kinda shenanigans.
The DOGE market on Cryptsy has held its value. The 21M stolen coins pale in comparison to even a single day of trading - last 24 hour volume report say 973M coins traded.
To put things into perspective it's ~USD 13000 (1dc= 0.00062$), combined. Not saying that it's not a serious matter. OP on the forum lost $600 which is sizable. But Dogewallet have stated on reddit that they will return all the investment and close down the site, which might arguably be better customer service then we have seen by Coinbase lately with much more money from individual investors at stake.
Any ways, if cryptocurrencies are to be taken seriously and formally, these entities have to up their customer services, at least to a BOfA level, which isn't much to expect ;)
I wonder if blockchain.info was hacked, how many bitcoins would be stolen, and if that would be enough to undermine the currency, or if bitcoin would move forward with the ownership even more centralized among early adopters, thieves, and speculators.
(Yes, I know it's a javascript wallet - that doesn't mean it can't be hacked.)
Interesting how this post fell to 20th place in its first hour, whilst receiving over 50 up votes... Something tells me the way this is getting voted could be sketchy. Unless, of course, people aren't clicking the link through and just commenting/voting.
I thought that this was a joke digital currency. Literally the only other place I've ever seen it mentioned was on 4chan.org, where the threads about it made very clear that the point of dogecoin was to try to get speculators to drive up the price so that the coins could be dumped for a profit. This story is hardly newsworthy.
