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It's basically impossible. There's 200BTC a day withdraw limits (or rather, was), for this to have worked somebody would have needed to be withdrawing the limit

by nwh 13y ago

It's basically impossible. There's 200BTC a day withdraw limits (or rather, was), for this to have worked somebody would have needed to be withdrawing the limit from 5 different accounts, every day for the last 3 years and successfully manipulating the bug in Gox's system every single time. This couldn't even have worked reliably, as the consistent Gox bug was only triggered by 0.8.0 being released. It doesn't make sense as an explanation, especially given that we now know that some Russian clowns also had database access.

nullc 13y ago
> There's 200BTC a day withdraw limits If you had a verified account you could ask for any limit you wanted up to 10k BTC, with a trusted account I think there was no maximum— I've talked to people who say they had 50k limits. There was a 200 BTC maximum per withdraw however, at least in recent times. > as the consistent Gox bug was only triggered by 0.8.0 being released Even that wasn't consistent, only ~1% of signatures were invalid DER encodings with their code.
- nwh 13y ago
  > If you had a verified account you could ask for any limit you wanted up to 10k BTC, with a trusted account I think there was no maximum— I've talked to people who say they had 50k limits. Wsn't aware of that, I only ever saw 200BTC being mentioned. Did Mt Gox seriously keep 10,000BTC+ in their hot wallet for this to work, or were manual withdraws like a bank where you make a cash request for the next day?
- jlgaddis 13y ago
  > I've talked to people who say they had 50k limits. That's certainly believable. My limit was 10k, IIRC, and I haven't used Mt. Gox since 2011.
stock_toaster 13y ago
> It doesn't make sense as an explanation, especially given that we now know that some Russian clowns also had database access Big Red Shoes, Inc.? ClownCarDB?
- nwh 13y ago
  A group of hackers that compromised Gox to find out "what went wrong" and compromised tens of thousands of people's passports and home addresses at the same times. Leaked the personal contacts and names of all the Gox employees, and generally put many people's lives genuinely at risk. Clowns.

by nwh 13y ago

nullc 13y ago

> There's 200BTC a day withdraw limits If you had a verified account you could ask for any limit you wanted up to 10k BTC, with a trusted account I think there was no maximum— I've talked to people who say they had 50k limits. There was a 200 BTC maximum per withdraw however, at least in recent times. > as the consistent Gox bug was only triggered by 0.8.0 being released Even that wasn't consistent, only ~1% of signatures were invalid DER encodings with their code.

nwh 13y ago
> If you had a verified account you could ask for any limit you wanted up to 10k BTC, with a trusted account I think there was no maximum— I've talked to people who say they had 50k limits. Wsn't aware of that, I only ever saw 200BTC being mentioned. Did Mt Gox seriously keep 10,000BTC+ in their hot wallet for this to work, or were manual withdraws like a bank where you make a cash request for the next day?
jlgaddis 13y ago
> I've talked to people who say they had 50k limits. That's certainly believable. My limit was 10k, IIRC, and I haven't used Mt. Gox since 2011.

stock_toaster 13y ago

> It doesn't make sense as an explanation, especially given that we now know that some Russian clowns also had database access Big Red Shoes, Inc.? ClownCarDB?

nwh 13y ago
A group of hackers that compromised Gox to find out "what went wrong" and compromised tens of thousands of people's passports and home addresses at the same times. Leaked the personal contacts and names of all the Gox employees, and generally put many people's lives genuinely at risk. Clowns.