It looks more and more like a criminal act the long and longer we wait for ANY real action from bitcoinica.
If zhoutong is not the owner, or a decision maker in that company, I don't CARE what he says. I only care what the OWNERS say.
But, wait. The ownership of bitcoinica is a secret? That suggests impropriety in the first place.
Owners and technical managers are silent? That suggests something is seriously wrong.
Yes, we're justified in making any kind of assumptions when the company in question still holds funds in the the form of what is now either a theft, or a "forced loan"
How many trades are taking place with our money right now while bitcoinica shores up it's personal losses to make good on everyone account balance?
Seriously, this smacks of some of the recent wall street type debacles. Trading with customer funds was one of my biggest concerns with bitcoinica. The longer they take with making good on the account balances, the more I suspect that this (criminal act) has taken place.
You can suspect anything but can you prove it ?
Most likely no. And even if you could prove it, I bet nobody would do anything. The FSP means absolutely nothing in the context of BTC ( only USD funds matter ).
The fact the owners are not stepping up, zhoutong is doing the PR ( and his goodbye bitcoin post ), nobody knows what really happened in terms of the compromise is very disturbing indeed.
Patrick was the guy that made a coding error and sent 512 BTC by mistake to a guy on here. I would be very worried indeed because it seems his email server got compromised.
Add to that the recent "scam" reports about intersango and his deals with mementoVPS that had loads of problems. I am not confident they will set up.
Anything zhoutong is saying about balances is moot since he owns nothing about bitcoinica and only a simple employee AFAIK.