JorgeStolfi
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February 17, 2014, 04:14:21 PM

From what I have read, Mark is holding at least 40,000 BTC that do not belong to him, whose owners have been trying to withdraw for months.  
no, those bitcoins in failed tx were stolen with the bug of send new mined coins, tx fail and modified mutant transaction with diff tx id gets relayed by hacker and then gox credited back the btc. rinse, repeat.

But that should not be the case of people who are publicly demanding their coins and/or dollars, right?  Like Rick Falkvinge, or those people who went to protest in front of MtGOX's offices.

When Rick requested a BTC withdrawal, the transaction issued by MtGOX must have pointed to his external wallet, and the hack would not change that; all that the  hacker could do is trick MtGOX into crediting back the BTC to Rick's account, in spite of the transfer haviing occurred.   But Rick and all those other clients apparently did not get his BTC.  So what happened in those cases?

(And note that, AFAIK, Rick is still a fan of bitcoin, in spite of his problem with MtGOX.)
 
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