Does anyone know any more details or have experience with this site?
From what I could gather: Wilkins Chung, Michael Douglas and Euwyn Poon all come from the mobile gaming industry. Granted they received funding through Y Combinator, but that was for those ideas. Euwyn Poon is a Comp. Sci major and a J.D. and has founded Optask (their site doesn't load), which seems kind of like fiverr. They all seem fairly young, mid twenties - thirties. I see that they're incorporated in Hong Kong.
If anyone has any other info to add about service they provide or other information please let me know.
I think this is interesting in the fact that Mark had mentioned the ability to purchase a private API which would trade even if the public API was offline, so it implicates Mt. Gox KNOWING what was going on no matter what. Even then the suspicious no sell/no withdraw issues would certainly be noticed. Not to mention the buy price remaining the same for these "users".
Some sort of criminal prosecution might be desired, however I think it might be difficult to tie Mt. Gox directly to these bots. They might have known about them, but may not have been using them.
All of this seems like good data analysis and I applaud ANY research into this matter.
I've been a member for a while at this point. Didn't check out the rules until recently. Came here to watch a thread originally about cracking bit coin wallets after a friend of mine lost his password. (He ended up figuring it out after about 4 months). But came back here to discuss ripple.com a creation by one of the guys who works with mtgox. Also to follow up with ASICMINER and btct.co possibly looking into buying into the investment over there. Other than that I dunno. I've invested in bitcoins for a while but never really cashed out. Used them here and there mostly novelty trading with friends for random things.
Hope this gets me on the fast track to the whitelist!