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The Willy Report: proof of massive fraudulent tradingactivity at Mt. Gox, and how it has affected the price of Bitcoin
Posted on May 25, 2014 bywillyreport
Somewhere in December 2013, a number of traders includingmyself began noticing suspicious bot behavior on Mt. Gox. Basically, a randomnumber between 10 and 20 bitcoin would be bought every 5-10 minutes, non-stop,for at least a month on end until the end of January. The bot was dubbed“Willy” at some point, which is the name I’ll continue to use here. Since Willywas buying in such a recognizable pattern, I figured it would be easy to findin the Mt. Gox trading logs that were leaked about two months ago (there’s atorrent of the data here). However, the logs only went as far as November 2013;luckily, I was able to detect the buying pattern in the last few days ofNovember. Below is a compiled log of its trades on the last two days ofNovember (from the file “2013-11_mtgox_japan.csv”):...... |