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Title: The REAL reason MtGox wanted to know your balance
Post by: qualia8 on June 25, 2011, 03:23:33 AM
If your estimate was lower than actual, they could get away with trimming it.


Title: Re: The REAL reason MtGox wanted to know your balance
Post by: d.james on June 25, 2011, 03:24:34 AM
make sense!


Title: Re: The REAL reason MtGox wanted to know your balance
Post by: Bazil on June 25, 2011, 03:25:35 AM
I think the estimate I gave them was slightly higher, I'll have to log into see


Title: Re: The REAL reason MtGox wanted to know your balance
Post by: d.james on June 25, 2011, 03:27:05 AM
they don't want you to see your balance because you will be shocked  >:(


Title: Re: The REAL reason MtGox wanted to know your balance
Post by: datguywhowanders on June 25, 2011, 03:27:25 AM
I am pretty sure mine was dead on. And it wasn't a round number either.


Title: Re: The REAL reason MtGox wanted to know your balance
Post by: qualia8 on June 25, 2011, 03:28:02 AM
I think the estimate I gave them was slightly higher, I'll have to log into see

Yeah, you'll "see" what they want you to see when you login.  When I was estimating, I was torn between accuracy so I wouldn't get locked out of the account, and protecting myself against this kind of horseshit.  Aaaargh.


Title: Re: The REAL reason MtGox wanted to know your balance
Post by: killer2021 on June 25, 2011, 03:29:39 AM
mine was dead on to the penny.


Title: Re: The REAL reason MtGox wanted to know your balance
Post by: qualia8 on June 25, 2011, 03:32:11 AM
i bought 40 BTC at $6.11, then withdrew it.  That will be reversed, so my BTC will be negative, offsetting what cash I have left there.  If they screw with my cash, I'll just keep my bitcoins and call it even.


Title: Re: The REAL reason MtGox wanted to know your balance
Post by: Bazil on June 25, 2011, 03:35:17 AM
I think the estimate I gave them was slightly higher, I'll have to log into see

Yeah, you'll "see" what they want you to see when you login.  When I was estimating, I was torn between accuracy so I wouldn't get locked out of the account, and protecting myself against this kind of horseshit.  Aaaargh.

Well I gave them the exact amount and time of one of my bitcoin deposits, also which of their addresses I sent it to.  That's pretty dead proof of ownership, unless someone stole my computer,


Title: Re: The REAL reason MtGox wanted to know your balance
Post by: qualia8 on June 25, 2011, 03:56:47 AM
I think the estimate I gave them was slightly higher, I'll have to log into see

Yeah, you'll "see" what they want you to see when you login.  When I was estimating, I was torn between accuracy so I wouldn't get locked out of the account, and protecting myself against this kind of horseshit.  Aaaargh.

Well I gave them the exact amount and time of one of my bitcoin deposits, also which of their addresses I sent it to.  That's pretty dead proof of ownership, unless someone stole my computer,

It would actually be tough to fake the account balances.  You'd have to change all of the transactions involved and make it consistent with what can be reconstructed from the block chain and previous known balances and trade times.  I'm not sure Mt.Gox is up to the task really.


Title: Re: The REAL reason MtGox wanted to know your balance
Post by: beeph on June 25, 2011, 04:00:32 AM
the REAL reason is cuz they probably lost their database cuz they never made a backupm, cuz mark kaspereto lost it when he laughed so hard at an anime joke that he spit milk through his nose  all over the company's only hard drive which was running caseless cuz he had 4 5830's in there and it was heating up the whole office.. Also the company's 'auditor' that mark dude was eating cheetos at the time and got cheeto dust all up in that sheeit so its totally unrecoverable..so they're just going off whatever u say it was..



Title: Re: The REAL reason MtGox wanted to know your balance
Post by: aquabit on June 25, 2011, 04:06:03 AM
I hope this is not the case. I was 99% sure that my balance was $5,250 but was not 100% sure so I decided to put 'over $5,000' as my last balance estimation. I hope when I login my balance is not $5,000  :-[

(Note these are not the actual figures for my account but you get the general idea)


Edit: My account balance is correct. I checked it here: https://claim.mtgox.com/status.html


Title: Re: The REAL reason MtGox wanted to know your balance
Post by: ploum on June 25, 2011, 09:43:20 AM
I doubt. I told them that I had something between 200$ and 300$ and it appears that I've slightly more than 300$. (not the actual numbers, just to give you an idea).

So I don't think that they want to play that game ;-)


Title: Re: The REAL reason MtGox wanted to know your balance
Post by: Mr2001 on June 25, 2011, 10:15:15 AM
I doubt. I told them that I had something between 200$ and 300$ and it appears that I've slightly more than 300$. (not the actual numbers, just to give you an idea).
Same here... I forgot about some coins I received last weekend, so my actual balance is higher than the estimate.


Title: Re: The REAL reason MtGox wanted to know your balance
Post by: bitdragon on June 25, 2011, 10:29:08 AM
I had underestimated my BTC balance-


Title: Re: The REAL reason MtGox wanted to know your balance
Post by: Havoc on June 25, 2011, 10:33:27 AM
+1 to estimated low and "recieved" a higher balance.


Title: Re: The REAL reason MtGox wanted to know your balance
Post by: Litt on June 25, 2011, 11:38:48 AM
My balance is exactly as it should be as expected.


Title: Re: The REAL reason MtGox wanted to know your balance
Post by: Horkabork on June 25, 2011, 12:10:31 PM
If your estimate was lower than actual, they could get away with trimming it.

No. It's so that they can make you think of a particular number, and at the same time use their mind-scanning machine in order to match and translate the brainwaves of one particular person to his account. Now that you told them the number and information you were thinking of, they know exactly who you are and can read your thoughts!

Also, MTOGOX = Mind Transmission Operation Gerf Orpp'lolk Xarblan

I don't know what Gerf Orpp'lolk Xarblan is, but it sure as hell isn't English. Oh god they're finally here.


Title: Re: The REAL reason MtGox wanted to know your balance
Post by: stic.man on June 25, 2011, 12:43:39 PM
I hope this is not the case. I was 99% sure that my balance was $5,250 but was not 100% sure so I decided to put 'over $5,000' as my last balance estimation. I hope when I login my balance is not $5,000  :-[

(Note these are not the actual figures for my account but you get the general idea)


Edit: My account balance is correct. I checked it here: https://claim.mtgox.com/status.html

oh man didn't even know we could check this here

my balances are correct, PHEW


Title: Re: The REAL reason MtGox wanted to know your balance
Post by: Bit_Happy on June 25, 2011, 12:52:27 PM
If your estimate was lower than actual, they could get away with trimming it.

BS
My estimate was $10 under (careless mistake), but the full amount is there now.  :)


Title: Re: The REAL reason MtGox wanted to know your balance
Post by: hamdi on June 25, 2011, 12:52:53 PM
alll will be fine, still i moed to tradehill meanwhile. lets see when this comes to tradehill


Title: Re: The REAL reason MtGox wanted to know your balance
Post by: Noviz on June 25, 2011, 02:36:39 PM
http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/uploads/foilhat.jpg


Title: Re: The REAL reason MtGox wanted to know your balance
Post by: NO_SLAVE on June 25, 2011, 02:38:25 PM
the balance is dead on.  :)