Well, I haven't been on the forums for a while and now it seems like Bitfinex is taking away a portion of every user's coins on the site to pay for the damages caused.
Poor management.
At least they are mitigating the issue and being clear and honest about the situation - when Cryptsy was hacked BigVern covered up for as long as he could then disappeared, and nobody was refunded BTC. Most people in the community knew something was wrong and started withdrawing whatever they could - but some lost everything, of course things would have been much better if they had a larger store of BTC in cold storage. At least this is the fairest solution. For some traders - it may not take long to make 30% back.
I guess we can agree that the communication from Bitfinex has been better than with Crypsty. But that doesn't mean much. Bitfinex really hasn't been transparent; we don't know if they are being honest, and they aren't being particularly clear.
It might be the fairest solution, but it may not be legal. Since the stolen assets were not co-mingled, they would probably be in a stronger legal position if they individualized the losses based strictly on the assets stolen and the customer tied to the stolen assets.
