Do you guys still believe this Willy word press bullshit had any significance? Pls.
I think that the buys by Markus/Willy were indeed responsible for most of the rise
at MtGOX. But my understanding is that they were merely doing arbitrage with China where the bubbles really happened, due to huge new demand.
It is possible that the Markus/Willy operators were buying the coins from MtGOX clients with non-existent dollars, as the report claims. If they were doing arbitrage, they must have been selling those coins in China, expecting to get the money from there later somehow. The December PBoC decree may have thrown a wrench into those plans. Or not.
We probably will never know, since Sunlot (who were sought by Mark as possible buyers, before closing) apparently made some deal with a couple of big clients who were suing MtGOX in the US, and may possibly take over from the bankruptcy court in Japan. If that happens, there is no reason to expect that they will do a real audit or criminal investigation, that the former management will be punished (or even excluded from the distribution of the remaining 220'000 BTC), or that we will know what happened to the missing coins. And nobody seems to care.
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