Wait a second... are we sure it was the Market Outage? I'd assume it was when In...

dublinben · on April 4, 2013

Why would they dump large amounts of currency (and plunge the price) when they can just sell it slowly? There's no risk from holding stolen BTC long term.

dragontamer · on April 4, 2013

Sure there is. If Mt. Gox goes down before you dump BTC, then you wouldn't be able to convert BTC back into dollars. Mt. Gox has been pretty unreliable recently too...