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Title: Mtgox.com html sourcecode (they are being acquired)
Post by: yomofo on February 25, 2014, 09:09:01 AM
https://www.mtgox.com/

hit F12 to see the html source code

screenshot: http://imgur.com/HZviu43

Title: Re: Mtgox.com html sourcecode (they are being acquired)
Post by: FierceRadish on February 25, 2014, 09:10:10 AM
Good find, though another poster just spotted the same thing:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=486336.0

Title: Re: Mtgox.com html sourcecode (they are being acquired)
Post by: 31337157 on February 25, 2014, 10:20:44 AM
They are just rebranding the company to "Gox" and pushing it as an acquire. New board and management of course so if they can clean up the image, they may have a solid thing going in the future.

Title: Re: Mtgox.com html sourcecode (they are being acquired)
Post by: TERA on February 25, 2014, 10:23:28 AM
What would be the motivation for the acquiring company to take on a crapload of debt/liabilities instead of just writing their own exchange and starting new?

Title: Re: Mtgox.com html sourcecode (they are being acquired)
Post by: thelema93 on February 25, 2014, 10:26:13 AM
Yes this is true:

<body>
      <!-- put announce for mtgox acq here -->
</body>

And also their support system is still online:

https://support.mtgox.com/home (https://support.mtgox.com/home)


Title: Re: Mtgox.com html sourcecode (they are being acquired)
Post by: escrow.ms on February 25, 2014, 10:27:05 AM
Quote from: thelema93 on February 25, 2014, 10:26:13 AM
And also their support system is still online:
https://support.mtgox.com/home (https://support.mtgox.com/home)
No help desk at support.mtgox.com

There is no help desk configured at this address. This means that the address is available and that you can claim it at http://www.zendesk.com/signup/

Title: Re: Mtgox.com html sourcecode (they are being acquired)
Post by: thelema93 on February 25, 2014, 10:28:38 AM
Quote from: escrow.ms on February 25, 2014, 10:27:05 AM
Quote from: thelema93 on February 25, 2014, 10:26:13 AM
And also their support system is still online:
https://support.mtgox.com/home (https://support.mtgox.com/home)
No help desk at support.mtgox.com

There is no help desk configured at this address. This means that the address is available and that you can claim it at http://www.zendesk.com/signup/

eh? I can see the page fine:

https://support.mtgox.com/home (https://support.mtgox.com/home)

Title: Re: Mtgox.com html sourcecode (they are being acquired)
Post by: debani on February 25, 2014, 10:30:51 AM
There is literally no reason for that to be there as a placeholder other than for people to see it and speculate on it.

Title: Re: Mtgox.com html sourcecode (they are being acquired)
Post by: escrow.ms on February 25, 2014, 10:32:08 AM
Quote from: thelema93 on February 25, 2014, 10:28:38 AM

eh? I can see the page fine:

https://support.mtgox.com/home (https://support.mtgox.com/home)

Flush your DNS mate or visit that link by any proxy,vpn.

Ps: Looks like some Billionaire or Chinese exchange has acquired mtgox.

Title: Re: Mtgox.com html sourcecode (they are being acquired)
Post by: medUSA on February 25, 2014, 10:41:32 AM
Quote from: TERA on February 25, 2014, 10:23:28 AM
What would be the motivation for the acquiring company to take on a crapload of debt/liabilities instead of just writing their own exchange and starting new?

Exactly! and taking on a load of potential lawsuits too...
Nobody would acquire Gox at any price.

Title: Re: Mtgox.com html sourcecode (they are being acquired)
Post by: wobber on February 25, 2014, 10:44:13 AM
I think the sourcecode is just put there by Mark to buy more time. Smoke and mirrors my friends... There were many days when we saw poor performance on stage from this guy's part. For how long you'll still believe it's MAGIC? It's a scam.

Title: Re: Mtgox.com html sourcecode (they are being acquired)
Post by: ElectricMucus on February 25, 2014, 10:45:30 AM
Quote from: medUSA on February 25, 2014, 10:41:32 AM
Quote from: TERA on February 25, 2014, 10:23:28 AM
What would be the motivation for the acquiring company to take on a crapload of debt/liabilities instead of just writing their own exchange and starting new?

Exactly! and taking on a load of potential lawsuits too...
Nobody would acquire Gox at any price.

If only it would be possible to buy them without the liabilities. :)

Title: Re: Mtgox.com html sourcecode (they are being acquired)
Post by: T.Stuart on February 25, 2014, 10:49:37 AM
Quote from: TERA on February 25, 2014, 10:23:28 AM
What would be the motivation for the acquiring company to take on a crapload of debt/liabilities instead of just writing their own exchange and starting new?

Hundreds of thousands of customer accounts really counts for something as there is no big rush of people trying to get into Bitcoin at the moment making it difficult to build volume on new exchanges - and a good percentage of these customers are rich people who just want to get back to trading.

Turning Gox around would bring a massive amount of credibility and attention to the acquirer.

I admit to having a vested interest in Gox coming back from the grave but seriously, the flipside of a broken company like this can be serious profits if new management get it right. Happens often in the world of business.

BTW I don't believe the crisis document, the HTML, or any of this new material that has come to light over the past 24 hours.

Title: Re: Mtgox.com html sourcecode (they are being acquired)
Post by: JCviggen on February 25, 2014, 11:04:21 AM
Quote from: wobber on February 25, 2014, 10:44:13 AM
I think the sourcecode is just put there by Mark to buy more time. Smoke and mirrors my friends... There were many days when we saw poor performance on stage from this guy's part. For how long you'll still believe it's MAGIC? It's a scam.

Could be, but someone is working to put something on the front page at some point. Every now and then a bunch of extra code shows up in the source, and then disappears shortly after. It's not "abandoned" at this point.

If they were trying to rush through a takeover at this point, it would explain the radio silence until all the signatures are in place. It could be a decoy of course, but to what purpose? Buying time at this point is fairly meaningless at this point. That said, putting a comment in the source suggesting a takeover makes no sense. It's entirely unnecessary so most likely it was put there for a purpose. The circulated "internal" document is an obvious fake imo, and nothing from there should be taken into account when trying to explain current events.

Title: Re: Mtgox.com html sourcecode (they are being acquired)
Post by: T.Stuart on February 25, 2014, 11:10:36 AM
There is also this, less promising, evidence:

EDIT: Please excuse me posting this. It is a hoax I fell for.

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Then of course there's some fun:

https://www.mtgox.com/img/pdf/insolvency-Announcement.backup

Now what is that you may ask?

Well ... notice it doesn't give a 404 error?

Click on this to see what it looks like if it doesn't exist:

https://www.mtgox.com/img/pdf/insolvency-Announcement.backup2


Title: Re: Mtgox.com html sourcecode (they are being acquired)
Post by: dg2010 on February 25, 2014, 11:14:11 AM
That is a sure fire signal that a file called insolvency-Announcement.backup exists on the mtgox servers.

Title: Re: Mtgox.com html sourcecode (they are being acquired)
Post by: T.Stuart on February 25, 2014, 11:14:44 AM
Actually it seems I was too quick to post that and it is in fact FUD.

Title: Re: Mtgox.com html sourcecode (they are being acquired)
Post by: Shak on February 25, 2014, 11:16:05 AM
Quote from: dg2010 on February 25, 2014, 11:14:11 AM
That is a sure fire signal that a file called insolvency-Announcement.backup exists on the mtgox servers.

https://www.mtgox.com/img/pdf/bullshit-Announcement.backup

and thats a "sure fire signal", that a file called bullshit-Announcement.backup exists on the mtgox servers.

Title: Re: Mtgox.com html sourcecode (they are being acquired)
Post by: Rannasha on February 25, 2014, 11:16:45 AM
Quote from: dg2010 on February 25, 2014, 11:14:11 AM
That is a sure fire signal that a file called insolvency-Announcement.backup exists on the mtgox servers.

No it isn't. It just means that everything with the .backup extension is being restricted.

Try: https://www.mtgox.com/img/pdf/Rannasha_is_awesome.backup -- you'll get the same Access Denied error. While https://www.mtgox.com/img/pdf/Rannasha_is_awesome.pdf gives a regular not-found-error.

Title: Re: Mtgox.com html sourcecode (they are being acquired)
Post by: escrow.ms on February 25, 2014, 11:19:12 AM
Why they will even take backups on image folder lol.

Title: Re: Mtgox.com html sourcecode (they are being acquired)
Post by: Rannasha on February 25, 2014, 11:19:43 AM
Quote from: escrow.ms on February 25, 2014, 11:19:12 AM
Why they will even take backups on image folder lol.

It's MtGox. Does anything they do still surprise people?

Title: Re: Mtgox.com html sourcecode (they are being acquired)
Post by: medUSA on February 25, 2014, 11:37:14 AM
Quote from: ElectricMucus on February 25, 2014, 10:45:30 AM
If only it would be possible to buy them without the liabilities. :)

Once liquidators come in, I am sure a lot of people will make offers for the source code and/or domain name

Title: Re: Mtgox.com html sourcecode (they are being acquired)
Post by: Cluster2k on February 25, 2014, 11:46:41 AM
The brand is quite frankly so toxic that I don't believe it has any value.

Title: Re: Mtgox.com html sourcecode (they are being acquired)
Post by: eoJ on February 25, 2014, 11:58:17 AM
Why would anyone buy Gox? We're heading for liquidation, selling everything, followed by repayments to customers in the class action (of a small percentage of amount owed), and a criminal suit for Mark, for fraud, trading while insolvent, and operating as an unlicensed bank.

Title: Re: Mtgox.com html sourcecode (they are being acquired)
Post by: thelema93 on February 25, 2014, 12:17:03 PM
https://support.mtgox.com/forums/20158837-What-s-new-at-Mt-Gox (https://support.mtgox.com/forums/20158837-What-s-new-at-Mt-Gox)

Title: Re: Mtgox.com html sourcecode (they are being acquired)
Post by: mo2t on February 25, 2014, 01:31:33 PM
Quote from: yomofo on February 25, 2014, 09:09:01 AM
https://www.mtgox.com/

hit F12 to see the html source code

screenshot: http://imgur.com/HZviu43

Tried it two times now, have two separate results, one as you, second one:

Code:
<html>
	<head>
		<title>MtGox.com</title>
	
  <script type="text/javascript">
    var AKSB=AKSB||{};AKSB.q=[];AKSB.mark=function(b,a){AKSB.q.push(["mark",b,a||(new Date).getTime()])};AKSB.measure=function(b,a,c){AKSB.q.push(["measure",b,a,c||(new Date).getTime()])};AKSB.done=function(b){AKSB.q.push(["done",b])};AKSB.mark("firstbyte",(new Date).getTime());
    AKSB.prof={custid:"223233",ustr:"",originlat:0,clientrtt:29,ghostip:"23.55.232.44",ipv6:false,pct:10,xhrtest:false,clientip:"111.111.111.111"};
    (function(b){var a=document.createElement("iframe");a.src="javascript:false";(a.frameElement||a).style.cssText="width: 0; height: 0; border: 0; display: none";var c=document.getElementsByTagName("script"),c=c[c.length-1];c.parentNode.insertBefore(a,c);a=a.contentWindow.document;a.open().write("<body onload=\"var js = document.createElement('script');js.id = 'aksb-ifr';js.src = '"+b+"';document.body.appendChild(js);\">");a.close()})(("https:"===document.locatio[Suspicious link removed]otocol?"https:":"http:")+"//aksb-a.akamaihd.net/146060/aksb-a/aksb.min.js");
    </script>
    </head>
	<body>
		<!-- put announce for mtgox acq here -->
	</body>
</html>

IP modified to 111.111.111.111

Tom

Title: Re: Mtgox.com html sourcecode (they are being acquired)
Post by: koryu on February 25, 2014, 01:34:36 PM
hi tom
you just told us your ip address, you want to edit this maybe

Title: Re: Mtgox.com html sourcecode (they are being acquired)
Post by: mo2t on February 25, 2014, 01:51:09 PM
Quote from: koryu on February 25, 2014, 01:34:36 PM
hi tom
you just told us your ip address, you want to edit this maybe

IP Modified, TY :)

Se  that screenshot will be better, some parts of code is changed.

http://imgur.com/yzkBkFJ


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