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Karpeles says that the money, discovered on 7 March, was moved first to online wallets, and then back to an offline wallet between 14-15 March.
Venmo, ultimately part of PayPal, a purveyor of the sort of online wallets banks dread, is widely used by American youngsters for sending each other small amounts of cash.
In the Bitcoin world, where banks no longer serve as intermediaries between people and their money, bank accounts have been replaced by online "wallets" that people can use to virtually store and send bitcoins.
Coinbase itself, one of the two online wallets which Gliph uses to enable the Bitcoin payments, was also forced off the App Store in November, and Blockchain.info's wallet app was pulled from the App store in 2012.
The company says 100 million people currently use its online wallets.
Online wallets used to store bitcoins have been subject to a number of cyber-attacks and some users have also suffered from accidental loss.
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For consumers, this sort of service, often referred to as an online wallet, is hardly new.
PayPal will also be promoted as the online wallet for use on Yahoo services.
But Blockchain has an online wallet service that you can access using any Internet-connected desktop, laptop, tablet or smartphone.
If there's one type of bitcoin business which has a bad name, it's online wallet services.
"This is a good example of why you shouldn't trust online wallet services," said colsatre, a moderator on Reddit's Bitcoin subforum.
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