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Re: New message from Mt. Gox

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Post by shawabawa3 »

I guess this could be taken to mean "the leak was a fake and unanticipated, we closed the markets to prevent even more panic selling"

Maybe there is a faint glimmer of hope for gox... (I personally doubt it)

Re: New message from Mt. Gox

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Post by Uberphallus »

malka wrote: post #10

I would not like to be in the shoes of mtgox CEO... He lost about 400M USD, some of them probably belonging to shady peoples (drug dealer, mobs, etc.)

That's the first thing I've thought. Back in the old SR days you could hire hitmen for pretty reasonable amounts, especially compared to 750kBTC.

Re: New message from Mt. Gox

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Post by reedlaw »

donquichotte wrote: post #8

The current message means absolutely nothing: "Dear MtGox Customers, In the event of recent news reports and the potential repercussions on MtGox's operations and the market, a decision was taken to close all transactions for the time being in order to protect the site and our users. We will be closely monitoring the situation and will react accordingly. Best regards, MtGox Team"

Sounds very passive. "Closely monitoring"? "React accordingly"? As if they were not the ones running the site.

Re: New message from Mt. Gox

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Post by ekianjo »

malka wrote: post #10

I would not like to be in the shoes of mtgox CEO... He lost about 400M USD, some of them probably belonging to shady peoples (drug dealer, mobs, etc.)

Well that's what people say, yet I haven't seen lots of executives in large companies where scandals have occurred suddenly getting randomly killed by hitmen in the streets. And Madoff's still alive, too.
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