Quote from: Phinnaeus Gage on June 02, 2014, 02:16:13 AM

Quote from: ABitNut on June 02, 2014, 01:49:19 AM

I'm surprised nobody tried to bribe PG to back off. I guess he's not close enough yet.

What if there was proof that Brock Pierce and Autumn Radtke once attended a function in which the Clintons, and the then unknown Barack Obama, among other notables, were also invited guess. Would that pique your interest?

What about bitcoins working their way into 401Ks and private funds? Yes, there are people who have 401Ks that never heard of bitcoins, yet their hard-earned dollars have indirectly purchased them. What if when the exchange rate for BTC goes up, their BTC positions are lowered via profit taking, but if the rate declines, the owners' funds reflect the lost, with new money injected into the funds for the next uptick.

Boy, would I love to have only .001% of that action. How 'bout you?

I can't wait for the above cryptohints to be explained, but here's a Snickers while we wait:

(from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MtGox)

"On 25 February 2014, Mt.Gox reported on its website that a "decision was taken to close all transactions for the time being", citing "recent news reports and the potential repercussions on MtGox's operations". The chief executive, Mark Karpelès told Reuters that Mt. Gox was "at a turning point".

On 28 February 2014 Mt. Gox filed for bankruptcy protection in Tokyo, reporting that it had liabilities of about 6.5 billion yen ($64 million at the time), and 3.84 billion yen in assets.[62][63] The company said they had lost almost 750,000 of its customers' bitcoins, and around 100,000 of its own bitcoins, totaling around 7% of all bitcoins, and worth around $473 million near the time of the filing."

Yeah yeah Buff, we all know that, you say. But did u noe this?

http://i.imgur.com/DtXeUE3.png

Talk about being on the ball! That's a good three days before MtGox publicly filed for bankruptcy.

Unfortunately, I wasn't paying much attention to Gox (cuz fuck trading on Gox) when it imploded. Does anyone remember where the public mood on Gox was at on Feb 25? In other words, how reasonable would it have been, on that specific day, to start putting together a high-stakes rescue team for the sole purpose of acquiring legal control over MtGox?

I know that Feb. 25 was the day that the site officially shut down trading, and panic was in the air...

But when did SaveGox actually publicly burst onto the scene? Most of the hits on Google show the SaveGox chatter starting in early April, with one or two mentions in late March.

Just lying in wait...

I think we should take a closer look at the caches for SaveGox.com.

http://i.imgur.com/y2SBc4f.png

IT'S HIM! CMON, WE GOTTA GO FIND RESPECTMYPRIVACY.COM-

oh wait. fuck.

Well, at the very least we could check the archive.org caches and see just how much (if anything) was posted to the site pre-February 28...

http://i.imgur.com/owEu0gJ.png

Robots.txt?! Rilly? On a fucking barebones Wordpress site?