i don't bother with clicking on this link to see what new bullshit they are weaving. we have already received proof that Mt Gox and their sale had nothing to do with the price drop. and their representative already claimed that they started selling a very long time before the drops even began. in fact they started selling while price was still going up.
so any article that is still making claims otherwise is just bullshitting and forgetting to read the concrete facts that have already came out a long time ago.
Well, I did click the link and it makes sense that these trustees were bullshitting us by telling people that they did not sell coins on exchanges. They regularly sold coins over a long period and this will explain why the price were continuously dropping all the time. They even provided graphs to show what impact it had, when these coins were sold on the exchanges.
I thought it was large investors from the fiat system that was manipulating the price, but it seems as though it was simply stupidity on behalf of MtGox trustees.
Let's ask them for proof of auctions that was held or OTC trades that was done.
1. they, like many others, started selling
before the drop began not after it. so if their sales were the real reason for drops then price should not have been able to rise above $6000 since that is about when they started selling or dumping if you want to call it that.
2. any person with half a brain doesn't dump on the market to crash the value of what he is trying to sell. instead they do whatever they can to get the most amount of money out of their sale which means selling in a way to prevent the crash. so blaming the crash on them is outright stupid. not to mention that usually these types of sale happen OTC not on exchanges which have a lot of headache for withdrawing large sums of money and then your bank would give you a lot of headache on the other end!
3. if we say Mt Gox was the reason for the drop then we are basically saying that $20k was not a bubble, and it didn't need to burst and we also have no explanation for the previous 4 or 5 similar bubbles that bitcoin had in the past 10 years because there was no Mt Gox selling in any of them!
- with all that said, their sales might have put some sell pressure on the market and contributed to the drop and the bear market but it was not the cause and it was not the biggest reason anyways.