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Topic: And we have the manipulator who caused the crash (Read 4612 times)

vip
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other thread seems to be locked, just spent a half hour reading it though

Oh My God


!

Very entertaining eh? (Yes I am Canadian) Zhoutong even replied to him twice which shows good faith on his part IMO.

You don't know the 10+ PMs…
full member
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TLDR;

can you give a summary?
hero member
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other thread seems to be locked, just spent a half hour reading it though

Oh My God


!

Very entertaining eh? (Yes I am Canadian) Zhoutong even replied to him twice which shows good faith on his part IMO.
legendary
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diamond-handed zealot
other thread seems to be locked, just spent a half hour reading it though

Oh My God


!
hero member
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If someone took advantage of the fact this guy posted his position and that I posted it on here please let me know. I think it is awesome what you did liquidating him and would like to congratulate you. I'm sure there's a number of us who would like to thank you.
sr. member
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Wow, what an epic thread, with an epic smackdown when he was liquidated.  This is far more entertaining than some TV drama.

It made my day when he said he got liquidated. Now its hilarious because he says he is calling the cops

sorry I missed the source of this, link?

Mods moved it, it looks like.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--59969
sr. member
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Send correspondance to GPG key A372E7C6
Wow, what an epic thread, with an epic smackdown when he was liquidated.  This is far more entertaining than some TV drama.

It made my day when he said he got liquidated. Now its hilarious because he says he is calling the cops

sorry I missed the source of this, link?
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Your Minion
Wow, what an epic thread, with an epic smackdown when he was liquidated.  This is far more entertaining than some TV drama.

It made my day when he said he got liquidated. Now its hilarious because he says he is calling the cops

If he gambles with that money the responsibility is on him. You decide who to trust no one else.
One of many misconceptions in this day and age.
hero member
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Wow, what an epic thread, with an epic smackdown when he was liquidated.  This is far more entertaining than some TV drama.

It made my day when he said he got liquidated. Now its hilarious because he says he is calling the cops
sr. member
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Wow, what an epic thread, with an epic smackdown when he was liquidated.  This is far more entertaining than some TV drama.
hero member
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Bitbuy
He is shorting 17k with USD as leverage, he did not cause a 170k dump  Undecided

I disagree, this is certainly possible, the weakness on the tape was palpable...just needed a push

Don't you think we might have seen 170k in extra volume today had there actually been a 170k coin dump? Look at his numbers on the screenshot and tell me whether you see 170k coins anywhere.

People are actually saying 170k dump was _not_ needed. There was actually a lot less needed to dump the price to these levels and cause a panic sell. That's why 17k USD with some leverage was enough to cause this crash.

Except it wasn't, because as I said, I know at least another guy who was a lot more short than this guy. This might have triggered bitcoinica to balance its books and dump onto mtgox, but the guy in the screenshot didn't have that much of an effect.

Yeah, but when did the other guy start his position? Because the order book used to be a LOT less shallow a few days ago, so it wouldn't effect the market nearly as much as it did now, because the order book was so shallow. Also, did he go short in one go, or did he slowly build up his huge short position? Big difference there as well. The OP went short in one big dump.
donator
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I'm actually a pineapple
He is shorting 17k with USD as leverage, he did not cause a 170k dump  Undecided

I disagree, this is certainly possible, the weakness on the tape was palpable...just needed a push

Don't you think we might have seen 170k in extra volume today had there actually been a 170k coin dump? Look at his numbers on the screenshot and tell me whether you see 170k coins anywhere.

People are actually saying 170k dump was _not_ needed. There was actually a lot less needed to dump the price to these levels and cause a panic sell. That's why 17k USD with some leverage was enough to cause this crash.

Except it wasn't, because as I said, I know at least another guy who was a lot more short than this guy. This might have triggered bitcoinica to balance its books and dump onto mtgox, but the guy in the screenshot didn't have that much of an effect.
hero member
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Bitbuy
He is shorting 17k with USD as leverage, he did not cause a 170k dump  Undecided

I disagree, this is certainly possible, the weakness on the tape was palpable...just needed a push

Don't you think we might have seen 170k in extra volume today had there actually been a 170k coin dump? Look at his numbers on the screenshot and tell me whether you see 170k coins anywhere.

People are actually saying 170k dump was _not_ needed. There was actually a lot less needed to dump the price to these levels and cause a panic sell. That's why 17k USD with some leverage was enough to cause this crash.
legendary
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diamond-handed zealot
it wasn't him, he was just the trigger

every shrewd operator conscious at the time was jumpy as hell about then, we were making lower highs, lower lows and had broken the long term uptrend

textbook
donator
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I'm actually a pineapple
He is shorting 17k with USD as leverage, he did not cause a 170k dump  Undecided

I disagree, this is certainly possible, the weakness on the tape was palpable...just needed a push

Don't you think we might have seen 170k in extra volume today had there actually been a 170k coin dump? Look at his numbers on the screenshot and tell me whether you see 170k coins anywhere.
legendary
Activity: 3318
Merit: 4606
diamond-handed zealot
He is shorting 17k with USD as leverage, he did not cause a 170k dump  Undecided

I disagree, this is certainly possible, the weakness on the tape was palpable...just needed a push
donator
Activity: 266
Merit: 252
I'm actually a pineapple
bitcoinica is Awesome   Wink
 



Shorting 17K bitcoins at 10:1 caused a massive dump of coins on the market (170k) which would fully explain the crash we just experienced happened.

I hope someone takes this asshole out by buying and liquidating his position.

At first I was thinking this was Zhoutong himself but from this users post it appears to be them.

I've explained this in the other thread. He had $13k of his own money in there, giving him enough leverage at 10:1 and $6 per coin to go short around 21k coins. Don't you think the market might have reacted a bit more violently to 170k coins? The guy made a lot of money, but I know people who had larger short positions who made even more money off of this. It isn't dishonorable; it's just spotting what they think to be bubbles and profiting off of them. At that kind of leverage ratio, they could get completely screwed by a tiny bit of bad luck if the market is a little more exuberant than they think.
sr. member
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Bitbuy.nl!
He is shorting 17k with USD as leverage, he did not cause a 170k dump  Undecided
legendary
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Ahahaha gratz, good job on that!

Put it into your portfolio. "I have triggered a flash crash! Muahaha!"
legendary
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HODL OR DIE
There was almost no money on the buy side, this was foreseeable imo.
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