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My bet is on hoax and here is why: 1. A business like mtgox would expect to be moving coins into cold storage. The moment they need to move coins from cold sto
by Danieru 13y ago
My bet is on hoax and here is why:
1. A business like mtgox would expect to be moving coins into cold storage. The moment they need to move coins from cold storage into the hot wallet they would take notice and check their accounting. Theft from transaction malleability would show up in any simple summing of the balances and liabilities. They would notice the theft and stop pulling money from cold storage long before cold storage was empty.
2. The tone is too harsh on mtgox to be a report from a client of mtgox. Who produced it? If you hire a consultancy you can be sure they will brand any document produced.
3. Where did the cash liabilities imbalance come from? The "leaked" financial report did not show them spending the fiat reserve so where did the missing 20M go? How could the fiat liability be unclear? Shouldn't fiat liability be the one thing their accountant has a clear picture of? How do you "average across currencies", you cannot "average" exchange rates, the word makes no sense.
The more I look at this the more it feels like a post on bitcointalk.
- Aqueous 13y agoMt. Gox itself feels like a post on BitCoinTalk
- snikch 13y ago3. is the most important there. The other questions could be speculatively answered. But there's no way to explain a 20M imbalance without some sort of criminal negligence, which would make any sort of rebrand / relaunch absolutely impossible.
- tlrobinson 13y ago"Where did the cash liabilities imbalance come from?" Bank accounts seized by DHS?
- wmf 13y agoNope, the document accounts for that. It claims there is a massive additional amount of USD missing besides what was seized—with no explanation of how the money went missing.