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Topic: Dont fall for Marks strategy. Read b4 making any trade decision. (Read 5056 times)

sr. member
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So... who received USD successfully from gox in 6 weeks?
sr. member
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this is why i have removed mtgox from cryptocoincharts.info ! the price on mtgox is not a bitcoin price. its something completely different. nobody should bother about the prices on mtgox. but i guess pigs are stupid and all exchanges follow the downtrend

+1

We need to get gox out of the way, people are trading fiction goxbux and goxBTC, and go in goxbux because they think they have a bigger chance of recovering it.

It seems that Mark is working on BTC withdrawals, watch the price shoot to 1K as soon as BTC withdrawals work...

I was wondering it - it is not possible to withdrawn either btc or usd from Mt Gox? Initially i thought the problem was only with withdrawing btc and that that is why ppl were so desperately selling them ...

you CAN withdraw all currencies in fiat - it just takes 4-6 weeks or something to get it.
legendary
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Out of curiosity, could you list some of these? My main platform atm is Bitstamp and I have for over a year now been part of the "Gox is shit, stop doing business with them"-crowd.

However, I fear Stamp might suffer from the same fundamental flaws of incompetency as Gox, just better masked, and that they are headed for the same fate. I guess only time will tell. In the mean I'd love to keep a closer eye on these exchanges "built by pros" as you put it.

Actually, Bitstamp did issue an announcement suspending withdrawals temporarily.  However, unlike Gox, which demanded everyone else clean up its poopies, it appears just to be fixing the problem with its own software and will probably resume withdrawals shortly.

Just encountered this message.  Bitstamp has resumed withdrawals basically just a bit ago.
newbie
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No exchange is 100% pro at the moment.

My humble experience and opinion is that the 3 most reliable ones currently are Bitfinex, Bitstamp and BTC-e.

In all cases I am not comfortable leaving more than 3-5 BTC worth of funds on them for a longer period. Rather withdraw BTC/fiat as soon as you made your trade(s).

Just 2¢…
full member
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Interesting. Is there any exchange that hasn't suspended withdrawals?

lots of newer exchanges, ie built from the ground up by pros, are withdrawing just fine. unfortunately they tend to have tiny volumes for now
Out of curiosity, could you list some of these? My main platform atm is Bitstamp and I have for over a year now been part of the "Gox is shit, stop doing business with them"-crowd.

However, I fear Stamp might suffer from the same fundamental flaws of incompetency as Gox, just better masked, and that they are headed for the same fate. I guess only time will tell. In the mean I'd love to keep a closer eye on these exchanges "built by pros" as you put it.
legendary
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now before anyone gets all uptight about me giving "advice" that can lose people money, this isn't advice. Its just what I believe and have believed throughout.

I think gox are solvent, I think the price there is due to panic selling, I think its a good opportunity to buy. I think it will be business as usual in the next week or so.

So its time for me to put my money where my mouth is.

Today I am putting (fiat) money on gox and buying coins. A 40%+ discount to stamp is hard to ignore. The risk is that a lose my principal.

Fiat money is pretty easy to come by though, so its not really much of a risk Smiley



Great, hopefully you will make gox liquid enough for them to pay me what they owe me.
legendary
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Trusted Bitcoiner

"I might have manipulated the markets just a little bit....."
LMFAO
legendary
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Today I am putting (fiat) money on gox and buying coins. A 40%+ discount to stamp is hard to ignore. The risk is that a lose my principal.

Fiat money is pretty easy to come by though, so its not really much of a risk Smiley



I was thinking about trying this. I also thought that if Gox did go bust, and you'd deposited to Gox with a credit card, could you get a refund from the credit card company if they took your cash/coins?

Would it matter if your funds were in £/$ or BTC form? Say you bought 1 BTC @ £200, and Gox went under, could you claim (through your CC company) for the lost BTC's current market value, eg £500 at another exchange?)

I guess that would be highly unlikely, but the CC company might (possibly) refund the initial deposit...?

hmm could be worth a gamble.

You can only do bank transfer. SEPA in euro zone or international wire. There are other funny money solutions but no credit card option that I am aware of.
legendary
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Today I am putting (fiat) money on gox and buying coins. A 40%+ discount to stamp is hard to ignore. The risk is that a lose my principal.

Fiat money is pretty easy to come by though, so its not really much of a risk Smiley



I was thinking about trying this. I also thought that if Gox did go bust, and you'd deposited to Gox with a credit card, could you get a refund from the credit card company if they took your cash/coins?

Would it matter if your funds were in £/$ or BTC form? Say you bought 1 BTC @ £200, and Gox went under, could you claim (through your CC company) for the lost BTC's current market value, eg £500 at another exchange?)

I guess that would be highly unlikely, but the CC company might (possibly) refund the initial deposit...?

hmm could be worth a gamble.
legendary
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Wow. Looks like completely unregulated currency exchanges are not such a great idea. I understand that the names of people behind Mt Goc are at least known? But will they be prosecuted in Japan if they will just decide to never give the deposited money back to people? Hack or no hack?

If regulation hadn't forced people to keep their fiat on there forever this wouldn't be such a mess.

It's quite credible that the 6-month lockdown on wires was caused by banks who don't dare transfer any serious amount. The software issue now is probably minor in comparison, but in combination the two created huge chaos.

While Gox screwing up is an the issue, for all we know regulation still did the larger part. The reason Gox got hit harder was supposedly Silk Road money sitting there, which also sounds credible to me.

"Regulation" really just means blocking everything for hardly any benefit. In the end it doesn't recover lost funds either.
full member
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this is why i have removed mtgox from cryptocoincharts.info ! the price on mtgox is not a bitcoin price. its something completely different. nobody should bother about the prices on mtgox. but i guess pigs are stupid and all exchanges follow the downtrend

+1

We need to get gox out of the way, people are trading fiction goxbux and goxBTC, and go in goxbux because they think they have a bigger chance of recovering it.

It seems that Mark is working on BTC withdrawals, watch the price shoot to 1K as soon as BTC withdrawals work...

I was wondering it - it is not possible to withdrawn either btc or usd from Mt Gox? Initially i thought the problem was only with withdrawing btc and that that is why ppl were so desperately selling them ...

You can't withdraw either, the exchange is entirely fictional. If BTC was owned by a company, that company would be suing Mt. Gox for misrepresentation of a trademark Smiley

Wow. Looks like completely unregulated currency exchanges are not such a great idea. I understand that the names of people behind Mt Goc are at least known? But will they be prosecuted in Japan if they will just decide to never give the deposited money back to people? Hack or no hack?
newbie
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Interesting. Is there any exchange that hasn't suspended withdrawals?
Kraken. Super tiny volume, but it works.

Bitfinex
sr. member
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Interesting. Is there any exchange that hasn't suspended withdrawals?

I got USD from a Coinbase withdrawal yesterday, but the ACH was already in the pipeline before this news.  Considering they use Bitstamp, which has in fact suspended withdrawals temporarily, I'm not sure what would happen now.

I'm certainly not selling at this depressed price like some Nervous Nellies.

I'm actually kind of bummed my cash flow situation is such I can't buy some right now.  My position is definitely long-term hold, though.

While I didn't withdraw, Coinbase looked like they would still honor a withdrawal yesterday.  They're usually pretty upfront about stuff.
legendary
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At this Point Gox sacrificed Bitcoin to try and save their own asses, Playing the "We are completely legit, it was Bitcoin that caused this" card.
Damaging Bitcoin globally, which is easy to see.
I'll never touch Gox again, I frankly could care less what they fix or implement.
legendary
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legendary
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Merit: 1087
Nail biting stuff! I always seem to end up this way when dealing with BTC. Usually its waiting for confirmations on the block chain.

Hoping its a dead cat bounce Wink  snagging a bunch of coins for $300 would be quite something. (provided the 'moon' assumption holds! hehe)
hero member
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sepa. bank usually turns it round same day so it just depends how long gox take to "KYC/AML" me!

I would hope, as they seem to be doing nothing else, that part won't take to long!

We could be seeing the first upward movement from them now. Although I think this is probably from those who were waiting but now want to buy in before the chance that trading is shut off while the "solution" Karpeles spoke about recently is implemented.
legendary
Activity: 2576
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sepa. bank usually turns it round same day so it just depends how long gox take to "KYC/AML" me!

I would hope, as they seem to be doing nothing else, that part won't take to long!
hero member
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now before anyone gets all uptight about me giving "advice" that can lose people money, this isn't advice. Its just what I believe and have believed throughout.

I think gox are solvent, I think the price there is due to panic selling, I think its a good opportunity to buy. I think it will be business as usual in the next week or so.

So its time for me to put my money where my mouth is.

Today I am putting (fiat) money on gox and buying coins. A 40%+ discount to stamp is hard to ignore. The risk is that a lose my principal.

Fiat money is pretty easy to come by though, so its not really much of a risk Smiley



Hope you get there in time. How are you doing it?
legendary
Activity: 2576
Merit: 1087
now before anyone gets all uptight about me giving "advice" that can lose people money, this isn't advice. Its just what I believe and have believed throughout.

I think gox are solvent, I think the price there is due to panic selling, I think its a good opportunity to buy. I think it will be business as usual in the next week or so.

So its time for me to put my money where my mouth is.

Today I am putting (fiat) money on gox and buying coins. A 40%+ discount to stamp is hard to ignore. The risk is that a lose my principal.

Fiat money is pretty easy to come by though, so its not really much of a risk Smiley

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