Quote from: rikkejohn on March 04, 2014, 08:55:21 PM

Quote from: chrono on March 04, 2014, 07:43:38 PM

Much has been discussed on the Mt.Gox situation but there still has not been an acceptable explanation.

In this pastebin are some of the bigger events leading up to mt.gox withdrawal issues. I feel there may be a strong link towards the silk road investigations, money laundering and perhaps some well known parties and individuals in the bitcoin space. http://pastebin.com/jES4zEuf

Please discuss!

Didn't click the link, but I'll pretend that I did and suggest that fat lad surely would have had links to Silk Road. Bitcoin itself grew on Silk Road, so it makes sense that the world's largest exchange (then) was involved in some way.

http://imgur.com/NUolxDg

From the Meiklejohn Blockchain analysis. http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~smeiklejohn/files/imc13.pdf

You can clearly see large amounts of bitcoin flowing in and out of Gox and SR. And this was in 2011/2012. Bitcoin is now 70x times worth that money. And that might tenfold once more. A lot of money where the feds don't want money to be.