Quote from: Puppet on February 16, 2014, 05:04:52 PM

Quote from: TaaviK on February 16, 2014, 09:35:22 AM

Everyone who had fiat on Gox and was tempted to buy bitcoins has already bought them.

Are euro/dollar deposits not working then? At $250, am I the only one who thinks this is a good bet?

Im not exactly a fan of Gox, but I honestly cant imagine them being bankrupt or even insolvent. Gox charges like 0.5% on average, correct? And have been collecting this for over 4 years now. I mean, just today of all days, gox earned around 0.5% * 81K BTC= 405 BTC in fees. Thats $250K worth of coins on other exchanges. Over the past four years that on the order of half a million bitcoins in trading fees. Even if they kept the vast majority of their profit in BTC (which is unlikely), do we really think they are stupid enough to keep more than a trivial amount of that in a hot wallet that someone could steal?

Company profit can simply be withdrawn as a dividend by the shareholders. Gox may be sitting on zero or negative money.