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And anyways the transaction malleability "excuse" was debunked, it can not explain millions worth of bitcoins AND millions worth of USD "disappearing" from thei

by yc1010 11y ago

And anyways the transaction malleability "excuse" was debunked, it can not explain millions worth of bitcoins AND millions worth of USD "disappearing" from their bank as well. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/09/mt_goxs_transaction_malleability_claim_rubbished_by_researchers/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/09/mt_goxs_transaction_... Karpeles is either a deliberate fraud (he does have a prior history) or possibly a bad programmer whose bugs in code dealing with money caught him with his pants down... Eitherway he has greatly damaged Bitcoin name with his shenanigans, blaming transaction malleability was one of the straws he tried to clutch at as his house of bad code collapsed, he also tried to blame his staff and few other tricks.

__z 11y ago
>a bad programmer He certainly didn't understand a lot about security. In the original topic on bitcoin talk (https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=444.0 https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=444.0) someone pointed out he was sending passwords in the query string. He replied "It is a post over https. It is secure." ignoring the other (obvious) problems with putting passwords in the query string (http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/29598/should-sensitive-data-ever-be-passed-in-the-query-string http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/29598/should-sen...)