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Post by sneak » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 5:09 PM UTC

rsanders wrote: post #70

sneak wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> or at the very least they don't give a crap about anything at all They were the market leader, with substantial revenue and lots of cash flow. Why they didn't prioritize hiring some people and securing their platform is still beyond my understanding. It's up there with the $100+ billion in cash Apple is evidently not using to hire enough code reviewers or implement adequate security processes for their most importa…

I couldn't agree with this more. It's human nature not to prepare for a theoretical risk. But once it's happened to you, and to many others in the same industry, it's just foolishness not to invest in prevention. I imagine there's also a bit of outsider-preference going on here. There's no lack of people who could have been hired to implement controls and audits that would have easily caught a slow leak of coins, but…

Post by bloaf » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 5:12 PM UTC

alexchamberlain wrote: post #12

So I have n bitcoins and $x in MtGox; will I get this back? Will there be a haircut? Is MtGox winding down? So many questions...

Post by TophWells » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 5:13 PM UTC

TophWells wrote: post #91

jorisw wrote: post #57

What are they doing in the page source there? Storing a message in a cookie then refreshing the page to display it? The second time you visit the page, you'll get your cookie-stored statement. Almost seems like they want to be able to change their statement without previous visitors seeing the changes.

I don't see anything like that. Here's the page source for me: MtGox.com 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

  
	
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Dear MtGox Customers,
		
In light 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
	
  

Post by yarou » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 5:14 PM UTC

sneak wrote: post #66

Udo wrote: post #42

I'm one of those who lost a good amount on MtGox. It wasn't in there because I thought they are a bank, I put it there because I like to speculate from time to time. As such I was prepared to lose most if not all of it anyway. I didn't expect things to go wrong so thoroughly, but still that was the premise of my deposits there. So from that perspective, I'm not really mad about them losing the money. It's unfortunate…

> or at the very least they don't give a crap about anything at all They were the market leader, with substantial revenue and lots of cash flow. Why they didn't prioritize hiring some people and securing their platform is still beyond my understanding. It's up there with the $100+ billion in cash Apple is evidently not using to hire enough code reviewers or implement adequate security processes for their most importa…

Post by asogi » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 5:15 PM UTC

TophWells wrote: post #91

jorisw wrote: post #57

What are they doing in the page source there? Storing a message in a cookie then refreshing the page to display it? The second time you visit the page, you'll get your cookie-stored statement. Almost seems like they want to be able to change their statement without previous visitors seeing the changes.

I don't see anything like that. Here's the page source for me: MtGox.com 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

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