The MtGox 500
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The MtGox 500
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#2I’m not sure I understand the difference between the green Selling BitCoins (to get Dollars, presumably) and Buying Dollars (by selling BitCoins, also presumably).
I’m even more puzzled by the rates out of trade: did MtGox allowed traders to agree one-on-one on their own rates? That would allow a lot more laundering than any theft.
Missing too are relative size of the traders.
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#3Any theories on user 15?
The amount of money lost is a little easier to get your head around when you see so many traders buying at relatively high prices towards the end.
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#4I’m not sure I understand the difference between the green Selling BitCoins (to get Dollars, presumably) and Buying Dollars (by selling BitCoins, also presumably). I’m even more puzzled by the rates out of trade: did MtGox allowed traders to agree one-on-one on their own rates? That would allow a lot more laundering than any theft. Missing too are relative size of the traders.
Green -> Buying bitcoin with any currency
Red -> Selling bitcoin for USD
Blue -> Selling bitcoin for any non-USD currency
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#5Very cool. Important to realize the graphs are on a log scale... threw me for a loop for a second before I noticed.
Could one of these graphs represent the activity of Willy[0]?
As an aside, I experienced a nice bit of schadenfreude when looking at a lot of the graphs from ~250 to ~299
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#6This is really beautiful. It's an amazing amount of information to be borne (almost) purely visually.
My favorite is 117. They are the Devon Sawa in Final Destination of Bitcoin.
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#7I’m not sure I understand the difference between the green Selling BitCoins (to get Dollars, presumably) and Buying Dollars (by selling BitCoins, also presumably). I’m even more puzzled by the rates out of trade: did MtGox allowed traders to agree one-on-one on their own rates? That would allow a lot more laundering than any theft. Missing too are relative size of the traders.
Yes, you used to be able to trade via dark pool in large amounts (at the time, that would be 5+ kbtc) to avoid upsetting the market price. Not sure if they still supported it at time of closure.
This is actually rather scary. Enough people have logged data that these can be dereferenced despite the feeble attempt at depersonalization, but I guess the names will come out in the legal proceedings anyway, depending on jurisdiction.
Then we'll have Newsweek writers at our houses asking how we feel about "losing millions" when our cost basis was really around $10. :-)
To head that off: "Umm, now I don't have to worry about how to declare this on my taxes? 'Miscellaneous Income' was making me nervous."
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#8I love seeing the mostly red charts, looks like people that mined a lot. check #145 and #180.
These people are selling at exponential curves on a log plot... mind blowing.
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#9Interesting to see that only lower user ids have glitch characteristics. Likely that they're "insiders". So either the messed with the system themselves or they got conned somehow.
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#10I love seeing the mostly red charts, looks like people that mined a lot. check #145 and #180. These people are selling at exponential curves on a log plot... mind blowing.
Or it could be a business that is accepting bitcoins for purchases and then immediately cashing those bitcoins into USD.