Forgot your password?  Comment: Re:Stills seems like it has to
be an inside job (Score 1) 227  by JWSmythe (#46468223) Attached
to: Hackers Allege Mt. Gox Still Controls "Stolen" Bitcoins
That was my immediate thought. Any decent system needs to ensure
that it isn't running at a loss. To make that happen, they need
an accounting system in place.  Rather than a loss, they managed
a significant profit. The profit didn't go to the company.  I've
seen lots of affiliate systems (sign up for a sight, the
referring webmaster gets x%). In the adult industry, it's called
shaving. The referring webmaster has a percentage of their sales
(I've seen up to 25%), where it isn't recorded that they got the
sale. Instead, it is credited to another account. The owner of
the system doesn't always know. They see sales come in. They see
payments go out. The shaved sales go to one of the developer's
accounts (usually to a difficult to trace 3rd party).  If I were
the developer, I'd have a friend in another country set up his
affil