> I only skimmed the article. Bad idea. You should read the whole article and the linked ones too. There's a lot of information there and it's really important

> I only skimmed the article. Bad idea. You should read the whole article and the linked ones too. There's a lot of information there and it's really important to understand what's going on (as well as understanding how MtGox operated). > I'm assuming that the bitcoins existed and the trades actually happened -- it would be straight forward to tell from the block chain. That's a big assumption. You can't tell from the blockchain since trades were done within MtGox's database, while the blockchain was only used for BTC withdrawals. In fact, AFAIK we can't even tell if the data is real, since this is a leaked log dump and could be altered to frame someone.