kakobrekla: and to point out it was not even about the 18 btc. the sum wont make me any richer or any poorer. its about principle. you just can not go hallucinating away 18 btc and bill the company. this breaks all the good incentives and you can have a bitcoin company operating this way, where its best for me to lose hot wallet weekly due to, as jurov put it, 'cost of running code on c machines'.