Topic: Alleged Gox address posted by Gox.com FB page (unverified) (Read 2561 times)

We still want to reassure you, that your funds are safe. We implemented a long time ago a cold wallet technique that can't be broken, because of the cryptographic implications.

You can see part of our funds here:
https://blockchain.info/address/18f1yugoAJuXcHAbsuRVLQC9TezJ6iVRLp

As you can see, all informations about our insolvency are greatly eaggerated!

Disclaimers: about half of what I know about Bitcoin I've picked up in the past few hours, and it's still negligible.
That said, tracing these transactions it seems like things end up in some bucket / accumulator accounts, passing through a large number of intermediaries.
The traceability of transactions seems like it could well work against this guy (or guys), but only if the identity/ies can be cracked.
I've been tracing some of the bigger movements on the theory that they'd end up accumulating somewhere eventually. Useful stuff: you can filter transactions by send and receive. You can also view the balance history of accounts.
One of the accumulator accounts is here, "HA1Ck": 1EBHA1ckUWzNKN7BMfDwGTx6GKEbADUozX. Note that this is the "All time" history, but transactions start on or about 25 November, 2013. Immediately 30,000 BTC are transferred in, with the final total ending up at around 41,000 BTC.
By contrast, "1Drt3c" (which I've come to call "dirt") shows a full time history here: 1Drt3c8pSdrkyjuBiwVcSSixZwQtMZ3Tew. There are some early transactions , then a few big movements in August / September, 2012. Things really start picking up in May, 2013.
Here's a typical pass-through account. There's a single incoming transaction (2014-02-06 13:25:04), and three outgoing TXs (2014-02-06 17:25:26). Two are for ~0.03 BTC ($24 and $28), the third is for ~22 BTC ($17,305). One hypothesis is that the two small payments were to associates who'd helped set up the account or otherwise facilitate the transaction, possibly unknowingly. Or skimming by members of the team ($28 times many, many transactions could add up).
If I follow that transaction line (to the max recipient) we eventually end up at 1Kr5vYUWR5W2zX5c7UKWBcpJjmPx5W5bBU which exhibits an oddity: this account receives 2.04268209 BTC (2014-02-08 23:46:37), and pays out 91.09238209 BTC (2014-02-08 23:52:12). I've seen this pattern elsewhere. Odd. But a bunch of penny-ante BTC transactions (well, if $1000 TXs can be penny-ante) suddenly jump to $62k. Let's follow that...
Another account with zero balance, but it's had a significant balance. Transactions start September, 2013, and zero out in February, 2014.
One chain ends here: 1JU3iYTcCeB34TLCN7XYwHDbDmVwnThjaK with a 971 BTC balance.
Another here: 1HiLGVR7T8siQVs4X5hSdWx15C5mW2JtSm balance: 10,084.17667 BTC. But also a 35,998 BTC payout 2014-02-12, $23.9 million. That chain end here: 1F5N5kz8RMEYWjMYJVjnxQwD8Z8NVW3qiW. One transaction, 33,878.9999 BTC. Not a bad day's work. Only 5% of the missing amount though. IP relay through Italy, apparently.
Off to some more chains and transactions...
A small accumulator TX -- 36 addresses contributing a total of 10.2 BTC ($8,070)
Another accumulator. Two big payouts in early December, and Frebruary
An endpoint from there: 1EogffKJZjtuBwQtJzYzmDfeekafG3Gwyc, though I suspect it's a waypoint. The transaction just occurred 10 hours ago. About a half-million dollars.
Endpoint 971 BTC 10 hours ago.
Endpoint / accumulater with ~2000 BTC (about $1 million): 1BLqSWgYaZRV6EZGW1TiAHcFUCKh8qG3M1. This shows up on several transaction paths.
Lots more, but that's what I'm seeing so far.