So, perhaps the price had reached its stable low and is rebounding a little.
The latest contact from those handling the MtGox debacle say they've contracted with a company to "recover" stolen Bitcoins. How I wonder. Steal them back perhaps?
Only if Mark Karples or one of his employees stole them.
Cold storage is simply an address assigned to a wallet that isn't connected to the internet. The perp could have purchased a laptop, opened a wallet, transferred the stolen Bitcoins to an address of that wallet, saved the wallet to a thumbdrive, smashed the laptop with a hammer and tossed it in the Seine.
A record of the stolen Bitcoins getting to that cold storage wallet exists in the blockchain but those stolen Bitcoins can't be moved to any other address without bringing that address in the wallet.dat of the thumbdrive back onto the internet and getting it seen by the blockchain.
Any other stolen MtGox Bitcoins that aren't in cold storage would have been mixed into some existing online accounts that don't maintain a history of each and every fractional Bitcoin's history giving the holder the argument he can't tell which are which? But it can be shown that X number of stolen Bitcoins did enter some account address. If the mixed Bitcoins are held by a company holding Bitcoins for many users and not differentiating which are which the company claims it's not responsible and not to be held accountable for those stolen Bitcoins that it acquired?
Are there any other places the stolen Bitcoins can be? I understand the double spending of Bitcoins on MtGox was only a small fraction of those stolen.