i cannot guess at the intelligence of anonymous individuals and their ability to apply basic logic.
those funds are lost if they cannot provide an ID, and if they get caught with a fake those funds are also lost.... that has been known for 1 year or so.
if not verified, funds are lost. period. basic logic. being able to withdraw without ID lasted until end of sept or octo 2013 right before the SR take down....
you really think someone is going to trade on an account they cannot withdraw funds from? at best they sell it to someone else at a discount and they try to get the funds out and take the risk.
What if you are one of their clients, and then suddenly they tell you that you have N days to provide document X or your funds are lost (that's right, not blocked until you provide the document, just fucking lost). Then they proceed to justify this action with a reference to a blog post of a year ago...
well let see i actually am one of their clients
and last year i got an email (not blog post) saying i need to verify and after 30 days i would not be able to withdraw btc/dollars without ID...
i didn't.... if i didn't provide an ID my funds would have been lost anyway.... at least that is the thought that entered my mind... i can only speak from actual experience, but i guess in this forum logic does not carry any weight...
so when i logged in about a year ago and tried to take out some btc and was blocked...
hmm.. what to do... what to do...
oh that's right... send them my ID, utility bill, etc.... because i am not running a criminal enterprise...
anyway i am not saying it is right/wrong moral/immoral, what i am pointing out (you may have missed the start of this discussion) is that this is certainly not the impetus for the 10% rally we are seeing for the reason i have outlined above and for other reason. sure it is likely not fair that they had a no ID policy and then changed their tune, but people did have 30 days to take out their BTC last year. if i had not been lazy i could have taken my btc off bitstamp without ID just like anyone else.
as a side note it is fun seeing the people who post on here and clearly lack the ability to think logically, it is no wonder some of us can realize way above average returns in our crypto portfolios.