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MTGOX not responding to emails. No one getting their cash out from there apparently.
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MTGOX not responding to emails. No one getting their cash out from there apparently.
If MtGox really Full-Tilted away everyone's money, I think Bitcoins are going to crash big time.
This might be a major major major bitcoin scandal in the making.
mtgox does this fairly regularly.
usually they are getting ddos'd.
but honestly at this point its 50/50 that its ddos v a federal injunction freezing their accounts.
one of the users in the thread linked to this article:
http://thegenesisblock.com/an-analys...ceo-of-mt-gox/
A picture is worth a 1,000 words. This Mt. Gox CEO is on the ball....
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=431117.0
Broken BTC Withdrawals on Gox -- 2230 EST, 28 JAN: 1654 broken TX!!
January 25, 2014, 01:38:59 AM
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Broken BTC withdrawals from Gox are piling up bigtime as we speak. There are nearly 200 broken transactions -- totaling almost 4000 BTC -- and some have been waiting more than four days!! Most are stuck due to outpoints already spent. Data is here: http://skanner.net/MtGox/mtgox_tx.php
And yes, 25% of my own BTC are currently stuck (26 hours and counting).
There has been zero official acknowledgment of the issue, and they're not even responding to support tickets related to this situation. The only contact anyone has made with them is with their IRC consultants who don't know a damn thing. The IRC support stated that they think "it is being caused by a bug or attack of some sort," but they haven't provided any additional information at all.
This is getting serious... VERY serious.
UPDATE 1: (1400 EST, 26 JAN 2014) This situation is reaching EPIC proportions. Current broken TX status: More than 400 broken TX totalling nearly 10,000 BTC!! With skanner.net being broken, as well, you can track the current broken TX situation here: http://thegoxreport.com/
UPDATE 2: (2230 EST, 28 JAN 2014) Current broken TX status: 1654 broken TX!!!
Interesting, I didn't realize that MtGox was marking up their prices for awhile. I have only been lightly checking bitcoin prices, and have just been lazy and looking at Gox.
All this time I thought BTC was in the $900s, but it isn't.
MtGox shows it at $933, while most other exchanges are in the $790-$800 range.
There has always been a huge discrepancy between various exchanges.
Bottom line; the more reliable they are, the faster they deal with cash-outs and transfers, the lower the prices of the currency.
I gave up on MtGox, for over a month I was trying to get my USD balance transferred to my local bank account without success.
In the end I just bought coins with the USD balance, and transferred these coins to another exchange.
My current exchange is awesome, all transfers are instant and if I sell BTC it takes less then 24 hours to have cash in my bank account.
Doubt MtGox are running a scam or going broke, their fees are excessive and they're making millions... they're just inept.
You're in the US rumsfield, there is no such thing as an exchange that is going to give you good service.
If you have a foreign bank account however, hollar at btc-e.com. They are an obvious euro crime front but they make too much money on the legit side to rock the boat.
VANCOUVER — When Mitchell Demeter and Jackson Warren opened the world’s first bitcoin ATM at a coffee shop in Vancouver, it was an instant success. People actually lined up to use the machine, which processed about $1 million in digital currency transactions over its first month.
But one day in November, a few weeks after launching the ATM, Demeter noticed something peculiar as he perused the machine’s transaction data at his office, across town from the coffee shop. At one point, the machine had voided 15 transactions in a row, for no obvious reason. So he drove down to the cafe, and as he walked through the front door, he immediately saw the problem.
A man was sitting next to the machine, at one of the cafe’s wooden tables, and he was holding a sign that read: “Don’t Pay Transaction Fees.” This very human entrepreneur, you see, was undercutting the world’s first bitcoin ATM. As people walked in to use the machine — which was charging a 7 percent transaction fee — he offered to exchange their money, by hand, at a lower rate.
Demeter booted this enterprising entrepreneur, and now, he posts his own man next to the bitcoin ATM
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise...1/bitcoin_atm/
Pokerhost which runs on the Merge network has a scammer on the network sending out messages for people to send funds in the form of bitcoin to them for a deposit bonus into their Merge account. It's clearly a take the money and run case but I guess it's only happened on the Pokerhost skin on Merge so far.
http://pokerfuse.com/news/poker-room...in-scam-04-02/
Current Price: $921
As best I can tell the problem continues:
http://falkvinge.net/2014/02/04/majo...ppeared-money/
Anyone here want to hazard a guess how much BTC will fall when/if it is announced gox is going out of business?
I figure 650, a guy who is waiting to buy into BTC said he thinks 500ish. Curious what anyone else thinks ?