On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
> I wrote: > > Some important details: >> >> - There's no hard evidence at any point that anyone has lost their >> bitcoins. ... >> >> The details that are coming to light are somewhat different than I had > understood them. I now read in the New York Times that Mt. Gox is > suspected to have had 744,000 bitcoins quietly stolen from them over a > period of years [1]. > > As I previously pointed out, all of the news ruckus is based on an anonymously posted document, the veracity of which is in doubt -- not the least reason being that the document states the losses represented 99.7% of their total Bitcoin assets and that this loss occurred over a number of years without anyone noticing. If Karpeles didn't notice something was going wrong when 50% of his Bitcoin assets were gone -- which should by extrapolation been at least a year ago -- then he wasn't the one running the show. I suspect foul play by some outside agency that saw Karpeles as a central point of control in the exchange market place and also as a soft target.
