I thought bitcoin went up on hype, down on fear. Opening up China markets, for example pushed the price up to over $1000. Then that hype died, along with MtGox and here we are.
Opening up China markets, for example pushed the price up to over $1000.
I thought it was pretty established that (a) that was Willybot (b) there was no exchange you could actually get dollars out (so, not Mt. Gox) of where the price was over $1000.
(a) seems to be the generally accepted reason behind the runup to $1200 but (b) is patently false. I sold coins on coinbase and mtgox during this period and received deposits of USD within the week. The amounts were all below the six figure mark, so perhaps there were individuals with million dollar or more holdings that had issues finding instant liquidity. However, I imagine this is true of almost all assets of comparable size.
I cashed out all of my bitcoin holdings during the boom times so I can't speak for anything past October of 2013, but I believe Gox was still cashing out to USD until mid December or so(?) and Yen for a few weeks past that.
Honestly, anybody that left USD or BTC funds in Gox wallets for longer than a day deserved to lose them at that point in time. All the reasons were known then just as they are now-- if you don't personally hold and secure the private key, you don't actually own bitcoin. If you can't handle securing it (both from theft and loss) you shouldn't participate in the market as a speculator.
Ok maybe a robot trader did it (with the help of the pump and dump strategists that follow such bubbles), but it certainly wasn't anything to do with the real economy, which supports my original point.
If I remember correctly, the price went over $1k on Btc-e and you could get your money out, but it was always certainly trading lower than a Goxcoin.
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I thought bitcoin went up on hype, down on fear. Opening up China markets, for example pushed the price up to over $1000. Then that hype died, along with MtGox and here we are.
I thought it was pretty established that (a) that was Willybot (b) there was no exchange you could actually get dollars out (so, not Mt. Gox) of where the price was over $1000.
(a) seems to be the generally accepted reason behind the runup to $1200 but (b) is patently false. I sold coins on coinbase and mtgox during this period and received deposits of USD within the week. The amounts were all below the six figure mark, so perhaps there were individuals with million dollar or more holdings that had issues finding instant liquidity. However, I imagine this is true of almost all assets of comparable size.
When were you getting money out of Mt Gox up to?
I cashed out all of my bitcoin holdings during the boom times so I can't speak for anything past October of 2013, but I believe Gox was still cashing out to USD until mid December or so(?) and Yen for a few weeks past that.
Honestly, anybody that left USD or BTC funds in Gox wallets for longer than a day deserved to lose them at that point in time. All the reasons were known then just as they are now-- if you don't personally hold and secure the private key, you don't actually own bitcoin. If you can't handle securing it (both from theft and loss) you shouldn't participate in the market as a speculator.
yeah, that accords with other reports I've heard - that you could still get USD out of Mt. Gox up to October and past that it was a bit iffy.
Ok maybe a robot trader did it (with the help of the pump and dump strategists that follow such bubbles), but it certainly wasn't anything to do with the real economy, which supports my original point.
If I remember correctly, the price went over $1k on Btc-e and you could get your money out, but it was always certainly trading lower than a Goxcoin.
I stand corrected! I do recall the other exchanges being about $200 below Mt. Gox ... though they still tracked its blatantly fraudulent prices.