Topic: "We learned that Mark only had one bank account, shared with Mt.Gox's customers" (Read 2105 times)
August 03, 2015, 05:36:46 PM
It's just to ridiculous, to behave that irresponsibly. It's too much for it to be pure negligence. It points to fraud, intentional pre meditated fraud. He's going to jail, I hope the victims see some of their btc returned, but that usually never happens
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August 03, 2015, 05:25:53 PM
a currency can not maintain a store value when --snip
yet somehow it does.
August 03, 2015, 05:03:22 PM
Karpeles will never cease to amaze me...
Yeah yeah... that was said so many times
Got to love those noobs that know better than old timers...
Bitcoin is dead.
Yeah yeah... that was said so many times
Got to love those noobs that know better than old timers...
August 03, 2015, 12:15:15 AM
The Bitcoin protocol is fine and dandy, but the fact of the matter is that Bitcoin as a currency is dead. A currency can not maintain a store value when at least a third of it is in the hands of thieves and hackers (witness the Gox implosion and the many numerous wallet services that closed down due to theft), and the large majority of the remaining coins are hoarded. It just doesn't work. Everybody wants to be an oligarch in this new economy… it's just never going to reach the mainstream with all the problems.
Again… the protocol is fine. Make any tweaks and create a new currency and figure out a way to distribute the currency.
Bitcoin is dead.
Again… the protocol is fine. Make any tweaks and create a new currency and figure out a way to distribute the currency.
Bitcoin is dead.
August 02, 2015, 11:45:54 PM
LOL, remember when Roger Ver made that video where he says "Ive seen the Mt Gox bank statements"?
August 02, 2015, 07:55:01 PM
are you kidding me?
as for biggest exchanger they should have more than one bank account
even the small company have at least 2 bank account
oh cmon Mark are you serious to build an exchanger?
as for biggest exchanger they should have more than one bank account
even the small company have at least 2 bank account
oh cmon Mark are you serious to build an exchanger?
August 02, 2015, 07:22:39 PM
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/commingling FOR FUCKS SAKE!
August 02, 2015, 07:18:26 PM
Everyone also needs to be aware of the following comment, made on Reddit by /u/discoltk. It provides, what I believe, is the most likely explanation for the massive price jump of bitcoin in 2013 and the subsequent collapse of Mt. Gox:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3fe92x/im_ashley_barr_aka_adam_turner_the_first_mtgox/ctor4f3
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Unless Mark sold or lost coins before the bubble(s), and was already effectively net short on coins before the run-up. He had an explainable excuse (DHS confiscation) for not being able to remit fiat, but no excuse for not allowing coin withdrawal. So in this theory he's forced to buy coins using the locked up customer fiat. This compounds his problem by driving the price up more. Until finally arbitrage through JPY accounts leaves him out of fiat, at which time (as indicated in the wizsec report) the bot starts selling. The fact that they suddenly had a JPY withdrawal bottleneck at the beginning of 2014 supports this conclusion. Finally he's out of coins and fiat, except for the 200k coins which would presumably have been what he hoped to keep for himself. In this theory I suspect he felt the heat from all the media attention and reluctantly decided to cough up those coins.
Obviously this is all conjecture but its really the simplest answer that supports the history. Especially if he was short those coins due to a much earlier hack. This would make his insistence that he was hacked true, and his sense of victimization justified (in his mind).
Obviously this is all conjecture but its really the simplest answer that supports the history. Especially if he was short those coins due to a much earlier hack. This would make his insistence that he was hacked true, and his sense of victimization justified (in his mind).
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3fe92x/im_ashley_barr_aka_adam_turner_the_first_mtgox/ctor4f3
August 02, 2015, 06:54:18 PM
A huge number of noobs (including myself) found out about Bitcoin at that time. We were so green that we knew nothing about any problems at Gox, and just wanted to buy Bitcoins as fast as possible. It's easy for people already into Bitcoin back then to say how obvious it was that Gox was going under. However, to noobs it seemed like the biggest, and therefore best exchange.
It was the daddy for a long time and was mentioned in all of the Bitcoin resources so it's totally understandable why people would give it a look.
At the same time if someone had sniffed around in greater depth then they'd realise that you couldn't pull dollars out of it and it had been the victim of numerous glitches and hacks.
Most of my early coins were from localbitcoins but when I did get around to using an exchange in October 2013 I chose Bitstamp after doing some research.
August 02, 2015, 06:36:40 PM
It's so easy in hindsight, and foresight is difficult when you're blinded by the crazy gains. Even in Gox's dying moments, people were shorting like crazy, trading Gox coins for Good coins etc, hedging on the hope that one day they may get them back.
I remember that phase well. The idea of profit was blinding people to the obvious outcome. One poster here wired in $55,000 a few days before it completely went up in smoke. There's managed risk and then there's just deranged vulturedom.
You'd have to be pretty heavily blinkered to not be aware of what was going down. That's not a hindsight thing. I wasn't interested in touching Gox when it was still number one.
Yeah throwing money into Gox at that stage was a huge risk, one which could have paid off massively.
I created a Gox account but never used the exchange, I think that I was turned off by them trading BTC only - whereas there were other reputable exchanges trading with alts too.
It was pretty sad seeing people trying to trade their way out of a shitty Gox-shaped situation. A first world problem if I ever saw one.
A huge number of noobs (including myself) found out about Bitcoin at that time. We were so green that we knew nothing about any problems at Gox, and just wanted to buy Bitcoins as fast as possible. It's easy for people already into Bitcoin back then to say how obvious it was that Gox was going under. However, to noobs it seemed like the biggest, and therefore best exchange.
August 02, 2015, 05:43:37 PM
Didn't Roger Ver go over the Gox bank statements at one point and he didn't notice Karpales was using it as his personal bank account? http://newslines.org/mt-gox/ver-problems-caused-by-banking-system/
He said he was only going on what he was shown at the time. Even then if I was asked to record a ringing endorsement I'd want to be pretty rigourous. Maybe there were some juicy looking accounts printed up just for him.
He did have his money where his mouth was. Lord knows why.
August 02, 2015, 05:15:00 PM
Good God, how much incompetence. A school boy would design and secure the funds of Mt. Gox better than what Mark did. Both, hot wallets and bank accounts (or a single bank account). This is really getting ridiculous!
Even I've got a second bank private bank account for a place for any profits I make that flow in through Bitcoin or my business purely for money managing reasons, that way I know what's coming in and what's going out properly and can keep an eye on things, it's common sense. One for any family money coming in that I spend purely on education and so on, the other for my own private use, it also means I can legitimately top up my primary account if it gets a bit low.
Either this guy just didn't give a fuck, or he's really, really stupid.
August 02, 2015, 05:13:26 PM
In fact, exchanges and banks are very similar, all of the customers share one account, and when that account blow up, exchange or bank will fail
A bank can be regarded as a simplified exchange: It only records the change in each customer's USD balance, while exchanges must record the change in customer's both bitcoin and USD balance
A bank can be regarded as a simplified exchange: It only records the change in each customer's USD balance, while exchanges must record the change in customer's both bitcoin and USD balance
August 02, 2015, 03:43:57 PM
Really? Did he fake transactions and market data as well to pump up bitcoin?
August 02, 2015, 03:13:51 PM
Didn't Roger Ver go over the Gox bank statements at one point and he didn't notice Karpales was using it as his personal bank account? http://newslines.org/mt-gox/ver-problems-caused-by-banking-system/
August 02, 2015, 12:14:29 PM
Wow, this is a very interesting story. Follwing that reddit page from now on, nice to see some insiders presenting facts!
Why on Earth didn't they post some alarm bells at the time? There's no shortage of anonymous options to do so.
because they're inside trading as well. You really think anyone with integrity would keep silent about this?
August 02, 2015, 12:11:26 PM
August 02, 2015, 09:17:29 AM
It's so easy in hindsight, and foresight is difficult when you're blinded by the crazy gains. Even in Gox's dying moments, people were shorting like crazy, trading Gox coins for Good coins etc, hedging on the hope that one day they may get them back.
I remember that phase well. The idea of profit was blinding people to the obvious outcome. One poster here wired in $55,000 a few days before it completely went up in smoke. There's managed risk and then there's just deranged vulturedom.
You'd have to be pretty heavily blinkered to not be aware of what was going down. That's not a hindsight thing. I wasn't interested in touching Gox when it was still number one.
Yeah throwing money into Gox at that stage was a huge risk, one which could have paid off massively.
I created a Gox account but never used the exchange, I think that I was turned off by them trading BTC only - whereas there were other reputable exchanges trading with alts too.
It was pretty sad seeing people trying to trade their way out of a shitty Gox-shaped situation. A first world problem if I ever saw one.
August 02, 2015, 09:14:58 AM
Only an idiot, or someone who intentionally stuck their head in the sand, couldn't see there was an issue at Gox years before it went belly up. Why people put money there I have no idea. Maybe it wasn't obvious what the problem was (we have more details now) but there was something off and it was only a matter of time. I got the feeling there were a lot of naive younger people who had money/btc there.
It was adviced by plenty of people in the community including Andreas Antonopoulos that people should never put their coins inside anything that isn't their own wallets that the control. People that got scammed by Mt Gox wouldn't listen so it's their fault, they took a risk and they lost, that's how it goes.
Only a extreme fool or an ignorant keep his coins that way. There were hacking attempts (successful!) on bigger services that MtGox in the past (not necessarily bitcoin related) and those who believed that their coins are safe there were daydreaming.
August 02, 2015, 09:04:54 AM
Only an idiot, or someone who intentionally stuck their head in the sand, couldn't see there was an issue at Gox years before it went belly up. Why people put money there I have no idea. Maybe it wasn't obvious what the problem was (we have more details now) but there was something off and it was only a matter of time. I got the feeling there were a lot of naive younger people who had money/btc there.
It was adviced by plenty of people in the community including Andreas Antonopoulos that people should never put their coins inside anything that isn't their own wallets that the control. People that got scammed by Mt Gox wouldn't listen so it's their fault, they took a risk and they lost, that's how it goes.
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