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December 23, 2014, 03:21:46 PM |
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Often i read the question: where is the missing $$$ from mtgox? The missing bitcoins are gone due to the btc bug (they say), but where are the dollars ? Answere: they didnt exist. I just want to remind you: https://willyreport.wordpress.com/2014/05/25/the-willy-report-proof-of-massive-fraudulent-trading-activity-at-mt-gox-and-how-it-has-affected-the-price-of-bitcoin/Mark Karepeles created the dollars himself and entered them into his database. But these dollars never existed in the mtgox bank account. Total BTC bought: 268132.73433409 Total USD spent: $111,770,744.48"So basically, each time, (1) an account was created, (2) the account spent some very exact amount of USD to market-buy coins ($2,500,000 was most common), (3) a new account was created very shortly after. Repeat. In total, a staggering ~$112 million was spent to buy close to 270,000 BTC – the bulk of which was bought in November. So if you were wondering how Bitcoin suddenly appreciated in value by a factor of 10 within the span of one month, well, this may be why. Not Chinese investors, not the Silkroad bust – these events may have contributed, but they may not have been main reason. But more on that later." dont forget this
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Moonpig
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December 23, 2014, 03:25:57 PM |
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Nobody really buys his excuse. It's very likely a thief has them whether that be Karpales or some other hacker of insideman. The whole ordeal stinks to high heaven, though.
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December 23, 2014, 03:31:16 PM |
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If your explanation is true, then Mark was running a Ponzi within Mt. Gox. And the same might happen right now inside any real time exchange, though it is not possible in P2P exchanges like localbitcoins.
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December 23, 2014, 03:42:08 PM |
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After having read through everything, it sounds more like an insider job carried out to artificially inflate the price of the coin. Somebody obviously ended up very rich from doing this.
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promojo
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December 23, 2014, 03:44:04 PM |
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The guy needs to be thrown in the river with cement bricks around his ankles. Seriously. I don't know how somebody gets away with all this theft.
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December 23, 2014, 03:45:42 PM |
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For the karpeles version : " It is disappeared" . For my version :" karpeles is a scammer". However I don't think he will finish in the prison , and also I don't think he will return all the robbed bitcoin.
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youngmike
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December 23, 2014, 03:46:33 PM |
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franky1
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December 23, 2014, 04:01:22 PM |
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the dollars did exist as many people gave MTGox dollars when they deposited.. the problem is that karpeles sucked that bank account dry, and although he is using a so called "malleability" bug to excuse how btc disapeared.. he cannt come p with a valid or credible reason for the dollar disapearance, and thus he kept quiet.. .. which is his downfall and reveals his lies, in of itself.
so while people were depositing dollars, mark karpeles was hedging that only 10% of people would withdraw the dollars, so he was operating a fractional reserve and pocketing a large amount of dollar himself.
Dwolla slapped his wrist the previos year for funneling large amounts of funds without licences. and i think once evidence is released publicly, it will be shown where other bank transfers have emptied the mtgox Fiat pot
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I DO NOT TRADE OR ACT AS ESCROW ON THIS FORUM EVER. Please do your own research & respect what is written here as both opinion & information gleaned from experience. many people replying with insults but no on-topic content substance, automatically are 'facepalmed' and yawned at
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jcoin200
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December 23, 2014, 04:48:40 PM |
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So does everyone finally realize that the run up to $1000+ was fully because of fraudulent activity??? I still feel like we have a ways to go before we are back to a reasonable price for BTC. Might be $200's, might be lower.
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December 23, 2014, 04:54:27 PM |
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So does everyone finally realize that the run up to $1000+ was fully because of fraudulent activity??? I still feel like we have a ways to go before we are back to a reasonable price for BTC. Might be $200's, might be lower.
the $1200 run was NOT fraudulent activity.. it was chinese activity.. which people in the western world then followed.. so not fraudulent, but speculative.. again for clarification mtgox did not cause the $1200 price.. china started it, mtgox, bitstamp, btc-e followed..
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I DO NOT TRADE OR ACT AS ESCROW ON THIS FORUM EVER. Please do your own research & respect what is written here as both opinion & information gleaned from experience. many people replying with insults but no on-topic content substance, automatically are 'facepalmed' and yawned at
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December 23, 2014, 04:57:28 PM |
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Run on 1200$ activity was only chinese activity. Consider that in these day there were an high volume on the market. But at the same time I consider that Mark Karpeles with its activity has contributed so much at the raising of price !
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hd060053 (OP)
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December 23, 2014, 05:30:28 PM |
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Run on 1200$ activity was only chinese activity. Consider that in these day there were an high volume on the market. But at the same time I consider that Mark Karpeles with its activity has contributed so much at the raising of price !
no, it was mainly mtgox, i saw all the live trades and gox always broke big walls first, then chinese exchange followed with higher volume (like now okcoin, but now okcoin controls the market). Also, there were 2-3 small crashes during the rally, and then mtgox stopped the engine to prevent that crash . And the chinese exchanges were not able go lower than the price where gox stopped trading.
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youngmike
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December 23, 2014, 05:36:37 PM |
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Run on 1200$ activity was only chinese activity. Consider that in these day there were an high volume on the market. But at the same time I consider that Mark Karpeles with its activity has contributed so much at the raising of price !
no, it was mainly mtgox, i saw all the live trades and gox always broke big walls first, then chinese exchange followed with higher volume (like now okcoin, but now okcoin controls the market). Also, there were 2-3 small crashes during the rally, and then mtgox stopped the engine to prevent that crash . And the chinese exchanges were not able go lower than the price where gox stopped trading. I believe karpeles bought some doge, then earthcoin but recently eqx coins
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December 29, 2014, 10:54:05 PM |
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Where is the $ from MtGox ? doest not exist apparently the manager of the local starbucks in Japan reported turnover of 250 million $ per year since karpeles rested his fat arse around the corner. that was just in frappuccino sales
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December 30, 2014, 10:16:30 AM |
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So does everyone finally realize that the run up to $1000+ was fully because of fraudulent activity??? I still feel like we have a ways to go before we are back to a reasonable price for BTC. Might be $200's, might be lower.
the $1200 run was NOT fraudulent activity.. it was chinese activity.. which people in the western world then followed.. so not fraudulent, but speculative.. again for clarification mtgox did not cause the $1200 price.. china started it, mtgox, bitstamp, btc-e followed.. Two other significant events fed that rally. The US Senate hearings was major for the market, as beforehand people were concerned that they might try to stamp down on Bitcoin. However, they were open-minded about it. The Robocoin BTM at Waves Coffee House was a huge media event, surrounded by camera-crew and reporters, few of whom had a clue what they were looking at. One of them compared the machine to the appearance of the monolith in 2001 Space Odyssey.
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January 01, 2015, 06:28:39 AM |
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Hookers Ha ha.. Is that where Draper's bitcoins went as well?
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January 01, 2015, 06:17:10 PM |
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Hookers Most honest thing I have read today
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January 01, 2015, 06:22:53 PM |
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January 01, 2015, 06:30:22 PM |
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What perfect timing
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