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The best line from the release:

"We are sure that, unknowingly to us, that our processing system has been used for nefarious purposes."

How can you be sure of something that is unknown to you? They're trying to disclaim responsibility while acknowledging the reality of what BTC is used for in some situations, I suppose, but it's a very strange way to phrase it. Then again, they're in "receivership" but declining to appoint an actual receiver.




[T]here are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.




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