A company that bills itself as the "Largest Crypto-Mining Marketplace" has itself been mined by hackers.
Or so it claims.
NiceHash told several media outlets that approximately 4,700 Bitcoin, worth about $70 million as this story is posted, were taken from its digital wallet.
The company announced news of a problem on its Facebook page using its smiling icon with Bitcoinesque eyes:
As you can imagine, NiceHash users had a range of responses: some suggested killing the hackers, others said it must be an inside job, and a few suggested they'd do the same thing if they could get away with it:
The whole incident continues to point to at least one thing: cryptocurrencies and the efforts to make money off them continue to grow.