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Have you found an inconsistency?
No i was just thinking about it since its very destructive if you look at trading data and do not realize that the data might be looking 1 or 2h in the future.
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UTC is pretty easy to get right, his servers should just automatically sync with a reliable timeserver in order to get reliable UTC.
Hope/guess you are right, but when i look at the "track record" of Mark Karpeles, i'm not sure. What he fucked up in the last 2 years is an achievement in itself.
Good nite its late here...
Hmm, well the last timestamp from the 2nd dump is consistent with the time I made it, so it looks like recent data is at least consistent with UTC. I suppose the only advice I could give is to do a dry run of any algorithm you develop first, just to see whether it makes the right choices in a period of, say, a week, before risking any real assets.
Personally I've been looking at other exchanges more recently, so you might want to consider other exchanges too, especially as you're worried about whether you can trust Mark. I'm quite interested in Kraken as it looks like it has a lot of potential, but I'm primarily using Bitstamp at the moment. There's some published CSVs for many exchanges here http://api.bitcoincharts.com/v1/csv/, although obviously then you have to trust bitcoincharts to have collected the data properly (I haven't analysed their data yet, but I assume it's fairly reliable; from a quick look the bitstamp one definitely seems to include the major price spike at roughly the right time).
Good night
