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Topic: Mt Gox hackers selling off their $650 million - is that keeping price down? (Read 2166 times)

legendary
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I suspect this will remain a fave boogeyman for a long time to come unless/ until we actually find out what's what because let's face it, we're running low on them now and people love a good panic. I will let it give me sleepless nights when there are some facts on the table.

The thieves seemed to run away with it flawlessly without actually leaving a solid trace. Up until now, there have been no convicted of the case, which is quite saddening for the people who lost lots of money in Gox. Until facts are laid within our eyes, the thieves will remain in anonymous to us.
legendary
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Welt Am Draht
I suspect this will remain a fave boogeyman for a long time to come unless/ until we actually find out what's what because let's face it, we're running low on them now and people love a good panic. I will let it give me sleepless nights when there are some facts on the table.
legendary
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If the hackers are intelligent which I presume they are, they'll hold at least half of their coins long term instead of selling all over the place for peanuts. Then again i dont think any hacking was involved, it was just an inside job.

Yup. I think whoever was the thief on that one wouldn't be that dumb to sell all the coins at once, given that each time the thief sells the coins, it will only apply downward pressure price-wise. Willy bot + Gox fiasco = easy money for the thieves.
sr. member
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If the hackers are intelligent which I presume they are, they'll hold at least half of their coins long term instead of selling all over the place for peanuts. Then again i dont think any hacking was involved, it was just an inside job.

The Winklevoss are rich and are expected to hold.

Some random greasy geek sitting in a basement is likely to buy a lamboghini, sponsor a sports team and overall do silly stuff with it. History shows that people who get their wealth in a flash often spend it very quickly. Sports stars, lotto winners, criminals.. etc.

But even if he/they kept half... $325 mill is still a huge amount for a market with the liquidity of the bitcoin market. An amount that could depress the market for many months (or years)...and maybe it already has.

I think most of the volume traded on exchanges is fake so it doesn't take much to push the price up or down. Dumping a million dollars of Bitcoins will inevitably push the price down, and buying them will inevitably push the price up. 325 million dollars of Bitcoins would take years to dump without pushing the price down to double digits.
hero member
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No one admits to knowing what happened even after all this time. The most convincing theories suppose that if there was a significant theft it happened in 2011/12. Even that's pure guesswork.

When Jed McCaleb sold Mt Gox to Mark Karpelès on 6 March 2011, the exchange held a total of BTC450,000. There is proof for the holdings at that time. However, once Mark Karpelès gained control of the exchange, the coins started slowly vanishing. By 2012 January, some BTC500,000 have been stolen. The gap widened to BTC750,000 by the beginning of 2013.





Is it unreasonable to think that somehow the former owners had backdoor access allowing them to siphon off the btc holdings after the sale?  Maybe not, I'm not really sure if this theory has been floated around before, but the correlation between the coins beginning to vanish right after the sale is a little strange.  Either Karpeles is completely incompetent, or something fishy happened during the sale of the exchange.
hero member
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My personal opinion (based on gut feeling) is that most of that selling
already happened during the bear trend from $1000 down to $200.

My feeling is also that Karpeles was involved.



It def had to be karples if there was a huge sell off.

I mean they kept a lot of the people in the dark on their true real prices so I`d expect something shady like that anyways where he did sell it off at that highest point.

And then kept some for reserve.
legendary
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Selling them has and will take a while - what will happen to the price when they finish selling them?

I think we are probably past this stage by now dont you think? looks like the market has turned around i also cant imagine that they would sell all the coins, how much money do hackers need in one year to live?

You never know, some people like new faces who arent aware of the whole mt.gox story are uninformed.

As for the hackers of having money in 1 year, they really dont if they are that good. They can hit multiple atm locations at once and cash out when they need to. This happened to citi bank, there was article but im sure you can google it.
legendary
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My feeling is also that Karpeles was involved.

and with 1,8 millions of bitcoins ... it can.



for a life in exil ... but with plenty of money, too.




smart move.



didn't catch, too.



a real bankster ...  Cheesy
newbie
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If the hackers are intelligent which I presume they are, they'll hold at least half of their coins long term instead of selling all over the place for peanuts. Then again i dont think any hacking was involved, it was just an inside job.

The Winklevoss are rich and are expected to hold.

Some random greasy geek sitting in a basement is likely to buy a lamboghini, sponsor a sports team and overall do silly stuff with it. History shows that people who get their wealth in a flash often spend it very quickly. Sports stars, lotto winners, criminals.. etc.

But even if he/they kept half... $325 mill is still a huge amount for a market with the liquidity of the bitcoin market. An amount that could depress the market for many months (or years)...and maybe it already has.
legendary
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If the hackers are intelligent which I presume they are, they'll hold at least half of their coins long term instead of selling all over the place for peanuts. Then again i dont think any hacking was involved, it was just an inside job.

it was no doubt a traing operation

ever seen Enemy of the State Smiley


" lets blend "

my fav part

yesterday i watched US Marshalls

so wat ya gonna do now?

Catch him Smiley
hero member
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If the hackers are intelligent which I presume they are, they'll hold at least half of their coins long term instead of selling all over the place for peanuts. Then again i dont think any hacking was involved, it was just an inside job.
legendary
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No one admits to knowing what happened even after all this time. The most convincing theories suppose that if there was a significant theft it happened in 2011/12. Even that's pure guesswork.

ive got a pretty good idea Smiley

remember how he let matt into his office
legendary
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the price will build a solid floor if we can tank that amount which is about 600+ times more stronger than a dump from miner that is performed each day, 3600 x 300

i would not consider it as a scary as many think, and i doubt that it will be sold all at once

legendary
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Selling them has and will take a while - what will happen to the price when they finish selling them?

I think we are probably past this stage by now dont you think? looks like the market has turned around i also cant imagine that they would sell all the coins, how much money do hackers need in one year to live?
staff
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It's most likely an inside job but till now no body went to jail , right ? then I guess moving them and start to selling them will make goverment start moving and do their job and they should do the necessary job to catch them .
I wasen't here when all this happened but I'd assume they don't even know the adress where all bitcoins went to for the moment ? but how a huge amount as this could dissapaear and not found on the blockchain unless they splitted them to shitload of pieces & small amounts ?  Huh
legendary
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No one admits to knowing what happened even after all this time. The most convincing theories suppose that if there was a significant theft it happened in 2011/12. Even that's pure guesswork.

When Jed McCaleb sold Mt Gox to Mark Karpelès on 6 March 2011, the exchange held a total of BTC450,000. There is proof for the holdings at that time. However, once Mark Karpelès gained control of the exchange, the coins started slowly vanishing. By 2012 January, some BTC500,000 have been stolen. The gap widened to BTC750,000 by the beginning of 2013.



hero member
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If the coins were really already lost in 2011/2012, wouldn't they have sold long before the 1200 peak already? Probably closer to the first real peak around the 100-260 range..

I believe that has been discussed before.
And it was said that, that is the reason for the williy bot.
It should be fairly easy (and fun) for one to go through the leaked database and check the transactions.
legendary
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There never were any hackers, team MTgox fucked their customers and took the money theirselves, plenty of evidence supporting that....
sr. member
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probably, after reading a little 'stories have come to the conclusion that it is more' likely that bitcoins have been stolen and sold long before the collapse of mtgox
legendary
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If the coins were really already lost in 2011/2012, wouldn't they have sold long before the 1200 peak already? Probably closer to the first real peak around the 100-260 range..
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