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tempestn on May 25, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fraudulent trading activity at Mt. Gox

When a user does not yet have sufficient USD on deposit with Gox to buy the bitcoins they want, they deposit more, and MtGox now has more real USD under their control. It's not a matter of selling the coins for real vs fake USD.

deckar01 on May 25, 2014 [–]

The question is how much new cash was really put into Mt. Gox to buy while they were dumping and the price was crashing?

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