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Quote from: Matthew N. Wright on April 18, 2013, 06:04:23 PM

Wait, they let people place orders with accounts that had no money? And people trust these bid and ask walls? That money should be locked away like it is on BitStamp.

The orders don't show up on the order book, they just make more work for the exchange

Matthew N. Wright

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Wait, they let people place orders with accounts that had no money? And people trust these bid and ask walls? That money should be locked away like it is on BitStamp.

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Quote from: mat542 on April 13, 2013, 02:53:04 PM

Quote from: proudhon on April 13, 2013, 01:36:13 PM

Somebody on btccharts chatbox is saying he saw on IRC the lag is caused by tons of fake orders being added and removed. That would be consistent with the change coming to MtGox disallowing order placement without putting up the funds. Interesting.

MtGox solved part of the problem :

orly?

Mtgox trading engine lag: 42m 54s

mat542

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Quote from: proudhon on April 13, 2013, 01:36:13 PM

Somebody on btccharts chatbox is saying he saw on IRC the lag is caused by tons of fake orders being added and removed. That would be consistent with the change coming to MtGox disallowing order placement without putting up the funds. Interesting.

MtGox solved part of the problem :

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Quote from: proudhon on April 13, 2013, 01:36:13 PM

Somebody on btccharts chatbox is saying he saw on IRC the lag is caused by tons of fake orders being added and removed. That would be consistent with the change coming to MtGox disallowing order placement without putting up the funds. Interesting.

Very interesting, considering that "walls" on the most popular support / resistance charts involve mostly Gox data.

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DDOS is just a scapegoat.

It's either incompetence or malice. Since neither explanation make sense I seriously considering the lag is just an arbitrary fudge factor artificially added by gox.

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Somebody on btccharts chatbox is saying he saw on IRC the lag is caused by tons of fake orders being added and removed. That would be consistent with the change coming to MtGox disallowing order placement without putting up the funds. Interesting.

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was it even that? the second the price triangle broke downwards it froze up, the system can't handle good selling at all. not all at once anyway

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I remember. But just until it becomes a contra-indicator.

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