It says the coins were protected
TBH I'm having trouble reconciling that post. If they caught it early there shouldn't be much "verification" needed. Worst case, restore last known good backup and replay known good transactions. Either they don't have a clue when and how the attack started or the whole thing is made up. To shut it down for a week is a truly confidence-inspiring act by a wannabe financial institution boasting to change the "industry".
I was just thinking about that one yesterday (another conspiracy theory)
since you guys are quiet and boring today, i'll bring back this topic. Not sure if it was discussed much back then. It's one of those things that was not a broken promises but it was or should have been a massive wake up call for a lot of people. The way they handled this whole fiasco showed it was managed by a team of amateurs ( at best).
Out of blue, 1Mh primes were really 25Mh primes (nobody knew how this happened, i don't think it was ever revealed). GAW knew about it because people reported it to the resellers and the resellers informed GAW. GAW knew about it, yet they did nothing. They shrugged it off as not true from what I heard. Around the same time (can't remember if before or after) , they gave (sold to) the resellers marked up primes (because they were not going to be sold anymore and ) so they would sell them at over $60.
Josh also made people think they were going to be worth over $80-90 once the market opened.
when the market opened, it was indeed high if I remember correctly, but then the prices crashed due to those that had 25Mh. They split them up and then they sold them for as low as $30 or so before GAW closed the market.
A lot of people sold low because they thought that was the market price, but it was only because of GAW's gross negligence (or something else worse)..
They also locked up people's money for several days.
They did not even apologize to those that sold low because of their own stupidity (and of course there was no compensation).
(i may have missed/forgotten some details about this, feel free to add)
for a later discussion
-how the resellers were screwed by GAW
-how the buybacks of hashlets only happened whenever Josh wanted