Topic: Take a good guess on MtGox's cold storage wallet/s (Read 681 times)
yes, should be possible. for now I'd wait till the dust has settled. the easiest way would be to access the database at mtgox. if the database is somehow "missing" there'll be the need of gathering as many saved costumer account data with btc addresses to reconstruct mtgox' wallets.
This is just a thought and possibly not doable the way i imagine it, as i did not spend enough time to get behind all the complexity of how the bitcoin protocol works, so tread this more of like a question to the community
Let's assume some have kept the records of their transaction of BTC into MtGox
We would be able to see to which wallet addresses owned by MtGox the BTC were sent to.
If there are enough records on this, we should also be able to tell via statistical analysis, where most of those coins were sent to, which SHOULD be the cold storage wallets as probably more than 90% were sent to such cold storage wallets.
Furthermore, once we took some good guesses on which the cold storage wallets would be owned by MtGox, wouldn't we then be able to see in the blockchain where most of the coins ended up?
As i said, this is way above my head as i am no expert with the BTC protocol, so i am just throwing in an idea hoping for someone well read in how BTC works to either falsify or admit to it being a feasible way to find out.
This would however require the cooperation of all that lost their coins, so we can get enough such transactions we could then run a statistical analysis on.
Let's assume some have kept the records of their transaction of BTC into MtGox
We would be able to see to which wallet addresses owned by MtGox the BTC were sent to.
If there are enough records on this, we should also be able to tell via statistical analysis, where most of those coins were sent to, which SHOULD be the cold storage wallets as probably more than 90% were sent to such cold storage wallets.
Furthermore, once we took some good guesses on which the cold storage wallets would be owned by MtGox, wouldn't we then be able to see in the blockchain where most of the coins ended up?
As i said, this is way above my head as i am no expert with the BTC protocol, so i am just throwing in an idea hoping for someone well read in how BTC works to either falsify or admit to it being a feasible way to find out.
This would however require the cooperation of all that lost their coins, so we can get enough such transactions we could then run a statistical analysis on.
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