I wish I had bookmarked all the smug reddit posts where people angrily denied this was true so I could go back and mock them.
Willybot was apparently real. Mt Gox CEO Denies Embezzling Millions of Dollars of Bitcoins https://nyti.ms/2u4TkHY
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If you had only not ridiculed the free market, who's dumb now
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Are you referring to my phone mistakenly autocorrecting "fee market" to "free market"? *That's* your beef with me? Autocorrect error? :-)
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Luckily, every reasonable person understood that it was a typo from the context, and my past history.
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I'm trying to be polite here but I've never heard of you nor did I read your article and said comment couldn't have had less to do with you
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So like, whatever borderline insane line you drew in your head to get to that conclusion, Jesus dude.
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But what remains unknowable is what effect willy bot had on the exchaneg rate. Did it amplify, suppress, skew? Who knows?
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Apparently everybody but you.
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I remember excellent blog posts in 2014 analyzing the leaked databases and finding WillyBot. At that point it was basically "confirmed".
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wtf - "obligation exchanges" ?? but yes, "a Willy bot" is a real computer software
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we know lets all retweet it.
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