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Why doesn't Mt. Gox just publish the ID of the wallet(s) from which they were stolen?

1. They weren't stolen - lost in cold storage harddisk failure for example

2. Revealing it would show something extremely embarrassing - they only used a single wallet?

3. They still have them - yay?

4. They were stolen by Mt. Gox - gulp



MtGox may just have larger problems right now and can't get around to the actuarial work involved.

Though I agree a cold storage failure is still a good possibility, given the poor communication.


2a. Revealing it would show that although they did not commit the current theft, they have been running another unrelated scheme.


Can anything they say or do be trusted at this point? I mean regardless of exactly how it happened weather it was theft, insider theft, incompetence, or blackmail Gox is not a party worthy of implicit trust any longer.




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