#bitomat.pl

Kit Dotson of SiliconANGLE reports on the situation at Bitcoin exchange Bitomat in which the operator claims the service's wallet was lost.  Bitomat's market traded the Polish zloty against bitcoins and was on of the larger bitcoin exchanges. Some excerpts:

By keeping both the wallet and the backups on the same ephemeral virtual instance, this sort of failure is almost inevitable.

Right now, it appears that Bitomat is up and running again with a fresh wallet.dat file.

As Bitcoin becomes more and more popular, currency holders and exchanges will need to pave the way for a future where they recognize they’re trading in an valuable commodity. 

Launch describes the situation with a Bitcoin exchange, Bitomat, in which the exchange's operator claims that the service's wallet was lost.  The post also weighs in on another disappointing development -- how the EWallet provider, MyBitcoin, has gone offline.  An excerpt:

Gavin Andresen, founder and CEO of Clearwing Software and a Bitcoin project developer, said by email that he had a few bitcoins stored at MyBitCoin. "I hope they are just temporarily unavailable and not permanently lost."