Justcoin shutting down today, cites bank account closure, comes weeks after $300k "goxing"
Norway-based cryptocurrency exchange Justcoin has announced that it will be shutting down, effective today. They cite their bank's closure of their account and the refusal of Norwegian banks to host accounts for businesses dealing with digital currencies.
In addition to an e-mail notification, Justcoin tweeted and wrote on its blog: "Justcoin is shutting down. Affected users, check your email." Users are urged to withdraw their funds by November 11.
Justcoin Goxed?
Several weeks ago, Global Crypto News reported that the exchange suffered a theft of 32 million XRP and 54 million stellar (STR), cleaning out its entire STR hot wallet. At the time, the stash was worth about $300k. Based on today's exchange rates, it's worth about $240k.
The hacker reportedly exploited the partial Payments Payments One of the bases of mediums of exchange in the modern world, a payment constitutes the transfer of a legal currency or equivalent from one party in exchange for goods or services to another entity. The payments industry has become a fixture of modern commerce, though the players involved and means of exchange have dramatically shifted over time.In particular, a party making a payment is referred to as a payer, with the payee reflecting the individual or entity receiving the payment. Most commonl One of the bases of mediums of exchange in the modern world, a payment constitutes the transfer of a legal currency or equivalent from one party in exchange for goods or services to another entity. The payments industry has become a fixture of modern commerce, though the players involved and means of exchange have dramatically shifted over time.In particular, a party making a payment is referred to as a payer, with the payee reflecting the individual or entity receiving the payment. Most commonl feature of the two currencies. Ripple's Monica Long says this feature is important since "it allows the person returning the funds to send less than the amount specified. Without this feature, returning funds would be difficult, possibly requiring many attempts to guess the market rate or making many small payments." However, users can exploit the feature by sending fictitious funds to an improperly configured gateway and withdraw while the transaction remains unconfirmed.
One reddit user commented: "I didn't receive any email from justcoin. I'vẹ just checked my transaction history and found that an amount of my STR was sent away and the transaction type is tfPartialPayment. Does anyone know wth tfPartialPayment is ? Was i robbed ?"
The relative proximity of the theft to the closure naturally leads one to believe that they're related. Some, however, have downplayed such a possibility. Some have also mentioned that Justcoin noted that the "tfPartialPayment issues" are "purely coincidental".
Trading Blame
Justcoin insinuated that the theft resulted from a flaw in Ripple's code. Ripple's Long had this to say:
"Justcoin did not implement partial payments correctly. The exchange falsely credited a non-KYC’d user for a deposit, and then allowed the user to illegitimately withdraw the funds from its hot wallet."
The events are reminiscent of the early days of the MtGox collapse, when the exchange blamed flaws in the Bitcoin Bitcoin While some may still be wondering what is Bitcoin, who created Bitcoin, or how does Bitcoin work, one thing is certain: Bitcoin has changed the world.No one can remain indifferent to this revolutionary, decentralized, digital asset nor to its blockchain technology.In fact, we’ve gone a long way ever since a Florida resident Laszlo Hanyecz made BTC’s first official commercial transaction with a real company by trading 10,000 Bitcoins for 2 pizzas at his local Papa John’s.One could now argue that While some may still be wondering what is Bitcoin, who created Bitcoin, or how does Bitcoin work, one thing is certain: Bitcoin has changed the world.No one can remain indifferent to this revolutionary, decentralized, digital asset nor to its blockchain technology.In fact, we’ve gone a long way ever since a Florida resident Laszlo Hanyecz made BTC’s first official commercial transaction with a real company by trading 10,000 Bitcoins for 2 pizzas at his local Papa John’s.One could now argue that protocol for a supposed hack that cost the exchange hundreds of thousands of bitcoins. Bitcoin community leaders and developers slammed MtGox's excuse, saying the flaw is well known and the exchange failed to handle it correctly with its software.
Jed McCaleb, one of Stellar's co-creators, disabled the feature in a new code release.
Norway-based cryptocurrency exchange Justcoin has announced that it will be shutting down, effective today. They cite their bank's closure of their account and the refusal of Norwegian banks to host accounts for businesses dealing with digital currencies.
In addition to an e-mail notification, Justcoin tweeted and wrote on its blog: "Justcoin is shutting down. Affected users, check your email." Users are urged to withdraw their funds by November 11.
Justcoin Goxed?
Several weeks ago, Global Crypto News reported that the exchange suffered a theft of 32 million XRP and 54 million stellar (STR), cleaning out its entire STR hot wallet. At the time, the stash was worth about $300k. Based on today's exchange rates, it's worth about $240k.
The hacker reportedly exploited the partial Payments Payments One of the bases of mediums of exchange in the modern world, a payment constitutes the transfer of a legal currency or equivalent from one party in exchange for goods or services to another entity. The payments industry has become a fixture of modern commerce, though the players involved and means of exchange have dramatically shifted over time.In particular, a party making a payment is referred to as a payer, with the payee reflecting the individual or entity receiving the payment. Most commonl One of the bases of mediums of exchange in the modern world, a payment constitutes the transfer of a legal currency or equivalent from one party in exchange for goods or services to another entity. The payments industry has become a fixture of modern commerce, though the players involved and means of exchange have dramatically shifted over time.In particular, a party making a payment is referred to as a payer, with the payee reflecting the individual or entity receiving the payment. Most commonl feature of the two currencies. Ripple's Monica Long says this feature is important since "it allows the person returning the funds to send less than the amount specified. Without this feature, returning funds would be difficult, possibly requiring many attempts to guess the market rate or making many small payments." However, users can exploit the feature by sending fictitious funds to an improperly configured gateway and withdraw while the transaction remains unconfirmed.
One reddit user commented: "I didn't receive any email from justcoin. I'vẹ just checked my transaction history and found that an amount of my STR was sent away and the transaction type is tfPartialPayment. Does anyone know wth tfPartialPayment is ? Was i robbed ?"
The relative proximity of the theft to the closure naturally leads one to believe that they're related. Some, however, have downplayed such a possibility. Some have also mentioned that Justcoin noted that the "tfPartialPayment issues" are "purely coincidental".
Trading Blame
Justcoin insinuated that the theft resulted from a flaw in Ripple's code. Ripple's Long had this to say:
"Justcoin did not implement partial payments correctly. The exchange falsely credited a non-KYC’d user for a deposit, and then allowed the user to illegitimately withdraw the funds from its hot wallet."
The events are reminiscent of the early days of the MtGox collapse, when the exchange blamed flaws in the Bitcoin Bitcoin While some may still be wondering what is Bitcoin, who created Bitcoin, or how does Bitcoin work, one thing is certain: Bitcoin has changed the world.No one can remain indifferent to this revolutionary, decentralized, digital asset nor to its blockchain technology.In fact, we’ve gone a long way ever since a Florida resident Laszlo Hanyecz made BTC’s first official commercial transaction with a real company by trading 10,000 Bitcoins for 2 pizzas at his local Papa John’s.One could now argue that While some may still be wondering what is Bitcoin, who created Bitcoin, or how does Bitcoin work, one thing is certain: Bitcoin has changed the world.No one can remain indifferent to this revolutionary, decentralized, digital asset nor to its blockchain technology.In fact, we’ve gone a long way ever since a Florida resident Laszlo Hanyecz made BTC’s first official commercial transaction with a real company by trading 10,000 Bitcoins for 2 pizzas at his local Papa John’s.One could now argue that protocol for a supposed hack that cost the exchange hundreds of thousands of bitcoins. Bitcoin community leaders and developers slammed MtGox's excuse, saying the flaw is well known and the exchange failed to handle it correctly with its software.
Jed McCaleb, one of Stellar's co-creators, disabled the feature in a new code release.