Well, everyone with funds stuck at Emptygox, you now know who to contact to bail you out.

What a mystery. I don't know what else could have been the source of leak on my email if not Bitstamp. It began in mid February.

Though I'm still pretty sure it is Bitstamp's fault, I'll withhold final judgement for now until we get some explanation for why only a subset of users is affected.

Actually, the OP that eleuthria replies to, is much clearer evidence since he claims to have used a unique email specific to Bitstamp only.

Interesting to know we have 3 people here who did NOT receive them (and probably checked spam folders). It would be good to get to the bottom of this. Maybe ask hazek.

Rule of thumb: If lots of noise is made and Bitstamp does not officially deny the accusation, it is probably true.

I think if eleuthria is to be trusted, then there is probably no question in it. Furthermore, Bitstamp themselves distributed email warnings of phishers I think shortly afterwards. It's possible that only a part of the mails were leaked, or that somehow yours wasn't sent to.

If we do some digging, maybe we can get it officially from a Bitstamp rep.

Perhaps I am being a little harsh with the exchanges; clearly they are the first attempts by hobbyists and we needed them in the very beginning. But now, we have moved on to a stage where we cannot afford to have experimental exchanges – perhaps even having such exchanges out there with the highest volume is detrimental nowadays. What is sorely needed is professionals who already have experience building financial infrastructure. Wall Street, not basement geek.

Same here regarding the Bitstamp account, plus my email was not leaked before all this and I only got those mails fairly recently, so I am near certain of eleuthria's conclusion. Have you checked your spam folder? Gmail for example has excellent spam filtering.

It's not like there are any good alternatives. All of them are shit.

We'll probably have to wait until there are US based exchanges registered as MSB in all states.

Eleuthria, admin of the BTCGuild mining pool, did the research on it: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1zaqvy/bitstamp_email_list_used_to_spread_mtgox_malware/cfs21qr


TL;DR:

FUCK EMPTYGOX
FUCK BITCRAMP
AND FUCK BTC-PEE TOO

Bitstamp leaked their customer email addresses by the way, that's why all the new phishing attempts. Reminiscent of Emptygox 2011. Fuck all the operating major Bitcoin exchanges.

Updating things live, eh? What particular business does that remind me of?

Did you ever notice that trader rhymes with traitor?

Yes, hopefully authorities will do a good job on investigating that angle. It isn't credible that they didn't notice the fiat hole before.

If bitcoinbuilder went to 0.9, how many people would be able to sell at this price? Bitcoinbuilder is now a fake market because noone can possibly sell at their price EXCEPT those who have already transfered their goxBTC over to bitcoinbuilder before the close.

You can tell just by looking at the extremely low volumes. Plus, I believe the bitcoinbuilder admin is taking a 4% fee on each trade, and the 2% realBTC side he converts into goxBTC he claims, so effectively he is subsidizing it.

Lose >99% BTC
Lose >40% fiat
Lose database along with customer identity data

Well, Emptygox couldn't possibly have done a much worse job than this.

It's a ghost market. Noone can sell his goxBTC except for those who withdrew before the site went down. In addition, builder takes 4% off each trade. Naturally the volume dwindles into nothingness.

I wonder if any of those funds have stored BTC on Emptygox and are now looking to replace them.

Look at all this fresh fiat money on Bitstamp. And look at this lack of coins.