precisely... we now have shitload of coins that will have to find some buyers eventually probably at double or even single digits (your favorite prediction will probably come true this time Blitz, remember how you used to say no more triple digits?
):
- US Marshals auctioned away about 52,000 coins so far out of 173,991 that they recovered from Ulbricht.
- We have about 600,000 Mtgox coins that vanished in addition to known 200,000 coins from MtGox that will be part of liquidation process
- We now have 18,000 coins that will have to be dumped for sure
- Big ass mining corporations that will probably dump to recover every single penny sending prices to ground knowing how much excess infrastructure has been built recently following fake MtGOX induced rally..
CCMF?
As every hour ticks by more and more bad shit seems to be creeping into this story.
Question is...what's the collateral damage going to look like?
There's a new statement from Bitstamp here.
https://www.bitstamp.net/"An important message to our customers:
January 6, 2015, 12:34am UTC: We have temporarily suspended Bitstamp services. Bitstamp customers can rest assured that their bitcoins held with us prior to temporary suspension of services on January 5th (at 9am UTC) are completely safe and will be honored in full.
On January 4th, some of Bitstamp’s operational wallets were compromised, resulting in a loss of less than 19,000 BTC. Upon learning of the breach, we immediately notified all customers that they should no longer make deposits to previously issued bitcoin deposit addresses. To repeat, customers should NOT make any deposits to previously issued bitcoin deposit addresses. As an additional security measure, we suspended our systems while we fully investigate the incident and actively engage with law enforcement officials.
This breach represents a small fraction of Bitstamp’s total bitcoin reserves, the overwhelming majority of which are held in secure offline cold storage systems. We would like to reassure all Bitstamp customers that their balances held prior to our temporary suspension of services will not be affected and will be honored in full.
We appreciate customers’ patience during this disruption of services. We are working to transfer a secure backup of the Bitstamp site onto a new safe environment and will be bringing this online in the coming days. Customers can stay informed via updates on our website, on Twitter (@Bitstamp) and through Bitstamp customer support at
[email protected].
- Bitstamp Team "
So they got pleny enough to go around. But the hacker still has 19,000 coins