Report Suggests MtGox Fraud Led to $1200 Bitcoin Price
The chart pointing out artificial price floors on MtGox via The Bitcoin Channel. It turns out that the extreme rise in the bitcoin price near the end of the 2013 may not have had much to do with China, Silk Road, or government hearings in the United States. Although those three factors are often cited as the reason the price skyrocketed to over $1000 near the end of the year, a new report suggests that there was some price manipulation going on behind the scenes at MtGox. Although the report falls short of placing guilt upon Mark Karpeles or anyone else at MtGox, fraud is definitely an....
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Welcome back to another Bitcoin News in Review, where we take a look at some of the biggest stories of the week. This week, (25 May - 1 June), we learned that Mt. Gox may have manipulated the BTC price near the end of 2013, Ripple CEO will donate billions of XRP to the underbanked, the European Central Bank isn't too happy about bitcoin, and more. Keep scrolling for this week's Bitcoin News in Review. Mt. Gox May Have Caused the $1200 Bitcoin Price. The chart pointing out artificial price floors on MtGox via The Bitcoin Channel. Looks like the Mt. Gox saga still isn't over. Near the end of....
The chart pointing out artificial price floors on MtGox via The Bitcoin Channel. In the Bitcoin Channel's latest episode of The Bitcoin Report, the possibility of MtGox having a rigged market is heavily discussed. While the episode steers clear of claiming MtGox is insolvent, it definitely insinuates that there is some form of price fixing going on behind the scenes. When looking at the recent charts for BTC/USD trades on MtGox, you can clearly see an artificial floor on the price of bitcoins. This has happened multiple times over the past week or so, and it clearly indicates that someone....
It turns out the protesters may have had a real reason to camp outside of MtGox. A variety of sources are starting to report on the state of MtGox's insolvency. CCN's Caleb Chen started to report on today's crisis at MtGox earlier today. Here's what we know so far: It started with this docment leaked by Two Bit Idiot. The document claims to be a contingency plan in the face of MtGox's current outstanding liabilities. Coinbase, Kraken, Circle, and others are releasing a joint statement MtGox's insolvency. Someone has decided to purchase gox.com. It's important to remember that three letter....
Today the Bitcoin community was presented with great News. It seems that MTGox customers will now be able to claim their lost Bitcoin. An MTGox trustee has opened a two-way process for customers who lost their funds. MtgGox customers will be able to initiate this process either through Kraken or through claims.mtgox.com, a special MTGox platform created for this purpose only. The announcement suggests that customers can log-in into their Mt. Gox account at claims.mtgox.com to make this claim, or they can attempt to claim via Kraken. Tthe Kraken exchange was last year selected by Mt. Gox’s....
Was a transaction malleability flaw the true cause of over 750,000 BTC belong to Mt. Gox customers going missing? According to a study conducted by Christian Decker and Roger Wattenhofer of ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), transaction malleability accounted for significantly less loss than Mt. Gox declared - as little as 386 bitcoins. ...while MtGox claimed to have lost 850,000 bitcoins due to malleability attacks, we merely observed a total of 302,000 bitcoins ever being involved in malleability attacks. Of these, only 1,811 bitcoins were in attacks before MtGox stopped....