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Some info here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1z37zw/mt_gox_has_at_least_200k_btc/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1z37zw/mt_gox_has_a... "
by sillysaurus3 13y ago
Some info here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1z37zw/mt_gox_has_at_least_200k_btc/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1z37zw/mt_gox_has_a...
"MtGox still has at least 200k BTC"
Here are the possibilities, as far as I can tell:
1) That information is inaccurate.
2) MtGox lost their private keys.
3) The private keys were kept in a bank vault, which was seized by a foreign entity like the US government at some earlier time.
4) MtGox stole the coins.
The management of MtGox knows which of these is correct, but they probably aren't going to say.
- bachback 13y ago5) they were stolen
- zbowling 13y agothat is #2
- pera 13y agonot exactly the same, one bad actor owning that amount of bitcoins would be scary: for example, this person could first trade otc one fraction after mixing, second talk with some entity that hates bitcoin (say jpmorgan) and tell them that you can sell the rest in the open market (on every big exchange) sending the price to 0 (literally), get profits and powerful new friends from doing this. The situation doesn't looks good.
- raphaelj 13y agoWhich is the same as 2) and 3).
- shawabawa3 13y agoNo, could have been stolen through bugs in their software (e.g. transaction maleability), not directly from stealing the keys