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Title: Anomalous $1bn trade on MtGox
Post by: Seal on October 12, 2012, 03:26:02 PM
I've been querying the MtGox trade data recently and came across an entry on 09/08/2012:

TradeID: 1344515801056587
Amount: 0.00000102
Price: 1000000000.00000
TimeStamp: 2012-08-09 12:36:41

Thats right, a $1 billion trade. This is messing up my number crunching.

Questions:

... I'm assuming this is anomalous and can be deleted, why is it in MtGox's trade history if it isn't a valid trade?

If its correct, how was it a valid trade?

Why does this trade not show up on any of the charting sites?

What happened that day?


Title: Re: Anomalous $1bn trade on MtGox
Post by: chmod755 on October 12, 2012, 03:33:17 PM
Why does this trade not show up on any of the charting sites?

What happened that day?

It was a bug.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99558.0
http://bitcoinmagazine.net/mt-gox-glitch-results-in-1000000000-high/


Title: Re: Anomalous $1bn trade on MtGox
Post by: Seal on October 12, 2012, 11:20:56 PM
I might ask someone from mtgox to have this removed as a bugged trade should not show up on their trade history...


Title: Re: Anomalous $1bn trade on MtGox
Post by: SätöshiTable on October 12, 2012, 11:43:20 PM
that be $10.000 for one coin.

maybe a trade from the future?


Title: Re: Anomalous $1bn trade on MtGox
Post by: ryann on October 15, 2012, 10:11:16 PM
Considering that the entire 21 000 000 coins that arent even totally in existence yet isnt even worth $1 000 000 000 then its obviously an error of sorts.


Title: Re: Anomalous $1bn trade on MtGox
Post by: Frequency on October 17, 2012, 11:08:02 PM
that be $10.000 for one coin.

maybe a trade from the future?

if most BTC are mined in 2025 orso who knows what the price will be.. could be 10k, lol ::) ::) ::)
So i have to keep 100 orso behind...just in case... :P


Title: Re: Anomalous $1bn trade on MtGox
Post by: Bia Yao Ma on October 17, 2012, 11:16:58 PM
It's Satoshi messing with us.


Title: Re: Anomalous $1bn trade on MtGox
Post by: nomnomnom on October 17, 2012, 11:21:24 PM
Hehe, I remember that. That was a nice bug lol