the cat did it [Karpeles found 650 000 BTC]

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Quote from: ashour on April 13, 2015, 08:09:26 AM

Quote from: el kaka22 on April 13, 2015, 08:05:41 AM

Just a information: if 650k BTC that previously not in the market suddenly pushed into the market, then the price must drop by a lot!

Absolutely, the price would probably crash. The market barely handles te 3600 btc that ar mined each day let alone 650k bitcoin. But this doesn't look like a trustworthy or official source.

This might be tactic to bring the bitcoin rate down though I am not sure about it. Someone should do monitoring for all such kind of reportings.

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I believed this for a second... Grin

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You can just buy a domain, put some content on it and then write whatever you want. Whether it's a reliable source or not is another issue. I don't see similar references from other sites making that claim and if it is, I'm sure coindesk, cointelegraph or whichever big cryptocoins news sites would have reported it as well.

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Quote from: Mehek on April 14, 2015, 04:15:55 AM

lol m dreaming or its just a joke that much coin can surely enough to crash the btc

1. It's a joke
2. Nobody would crash the price as the sum belongs to multiple users, so you'd need a 1000 people to dump it the moment it's given back to them.

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lol m dreaming or its just a joke that much coin can surely enough to crash the btc

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Quote from: Kprawn on April 14, 2015, 02:18:19 AM

A lot of people left Bitcoin, because of MtGox and some even turned against it, and became "Bitcoin haters"

What about those who lost their lives?

http://rt.com/business/radtke-bitcoin-death-singapore-134/

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1z7a83/man_commits_suicide_over_mtgox_l osses

This is just the tip of the iceberg. Many dozens, if not hundreds might have committed suicide.

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This kind of thing is just cruel. Some people have a sick sense of humor. To joke about other people's misery is not in good taste at all...

A lot of people left Bitcoin, because of MtGox and some even turned against it, and became "Bitcoin haters"

The damage MtGox has caused, will have a ripple affect through the Bitcoin community for years to come... We do not need sick jokes like this. Angry

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I did not see this news from another source. I think it`s just bad joke and may be try to took attention. Bad joke for all victims here.
I do not trust it.

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If this was supposed to be a joke, then it turned out to be a very sick joke. Tens of thousands of people lost their livelihoods and life savings as a result of Karpeles and Mt Gox. Many committed suicide. Don't rub salt into their wounds any further.

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Quote from: buysellbitcoin on April 13, 2015, 07:58:58 AM

It looks like user submitted content and not actual reporting.

Same as Zimbabway declaring BTC as official currency.

Relax

Regards

Well at least this wasn't put into the Press Section
Imagines all the rage at a joke article being put in there.

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Quote from: cryptworld on April 13, 2015, 07:27:31 PM

that title is really sensasionalist and it leads to confusion, you should change it

Yes of course because there is not any 650'000 bitcoin, he should add to the title a tag [it's only a joke]. Hope kerpeles "noticed" about that article.

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that title is really sensasionalist and it leads to confusion, you should change it

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That was quite a funny story..and I believe its just someone trolling...I mean look at the weirdness of the story... Tongue

Also if the story was true wouldn't we be reading about it almost everywhere...

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this article was posted "04/04/2015, 02:06 Time"
if it was a real news then many online news site would have published it on their site,but it looks like a joke or troll

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Quote from: abyrnes81 on April 13, 2015, 10:05:20 AM

Quote from: Snail2 on April 13, 2015, 10:02:40 AM

Quote from: AtheistAKASaneBrain on April 13, 2015, 09:03:38 AM

It is most likely an april fools joke. What puzzles me tho and what I dont get is, how did Karpeles hide 650K BTC? Jesus. Isn't bitcoin pseudoanonymous? why aren't they able to trace the coins back? Did he really run 650000 coins throught a mixer or what?

1st of April was quite close to the release time, so probably you are right.

What will you think if it is not an April fool and that fat guy (karpeles) *found the bitcoin?
*but he can't 'catch' them.

Well obviously this was carefully planned. It's not just as simple as running huge amounts of them though the mixer.
If you look here:
https://blockchain.info/address/13JAudzPvKYyBtY9XpkhNW3YdDqBsi3c7Q
https://blockchain.info/address/1CC9tfJhGp1o1DGU7PZ5hD8LvxLYccdCJt

That's where over 420K were. They kept splitting up from there until many addresses held less than 1k coins.
Why would they split it so many times? Obviously this behavior is quite unusual and causes suspicion, but wait let's blametransaction malleability. Roll Eyes

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Yeah right. Don't believe a word of it.

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If true this would be all over the place. It would be HUGE news. That right there is your proof this is a spoof.

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Quote from: allthingsluxury on April 13, 2015, 08:03:41 AM

lol funny stuff Tongue

I bet its funny, but not to people who lost money on gox

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Quote from: CrackedLogic on April 13, 2015, 11:16:31 AM

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Mark Karpeles stated at a news conference that while looking for his car keys, he found an old style bitcoin wallet in his couch cushions - See more at: http://www.uspa24.com/bericht-3744/650000-btc-from-mtgox-found.html#sthash.J19PTtfl.dpuf

Okay, I stopped reading there. Why would you believe that? Even if Karpeles did find a wallet hidden his couch, do you really think he's going to return the coins or at least make an announcement?

I very much doubt it.

This is Bitcoin. What seems to be the dumbest joke ever could soon turn out to be reality... however that doesn't mean that Mt.Gox victims will receive a single Satoshi.

At least, Karpeles is a well seated guy.

ya.ya.yo!

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This is fabricated. There is no other media on the internet reporting the story. There was not a news conference where MK stated he found 650,000 coins.

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Mark Karpeles stated at a news conference that while looking for his car keys, he found an old style bitcoin wallet in his couch cushions...

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