<story><title>The MtGox 500</title><url>http://bitcoin.stamen.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jimrandomh</author><text>Users 1 and 15&amp;#x27;s charts make no sense - they have to be special system accounts of some sort. My guess is that #15 is the account that receives trading fees, and #1 represents MtGox itself (or some specific aspect of MtGox, such as its cold-storage).&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;re still a lot of points on these plots that don&amp;#x27;t make sense, though; generally they look like vertical stripes labelled as sets of small sell orders, both far below and far above the market price. User 30 has what looks like a large sell (in Mar 2013) far above the highest-ever price. So either MtGox&amp;#x27;s order-matching is way more broken than anyone ever knew (unlikely), or these actually represent fees, withdraws, or something similar, and the y-axis position is meaningless.&lt;p&gt;Also worthy of note is that massive sell order by user 1 in Nov 2013. That&amp;#x27;s hard to interpret without knowing what the dots on that graph really mean (I doubt they&amp;#x27;re trades), but it&amp;#x27;s likely significant.</text></comment>
<story><title>The MtGox 500</title><url>http://bitcoin.stamen.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drakaal</author><text>The biggest take away from this is that bots were driving the price up, and preventing its fall.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Bots&amp;quot; offer a lot of stability to the market because they don&amp;#x27;t react to bad news. Though an error can cause &amp;quot;flash crashes&amp;quot; As happened in May of 2010 on the stock market.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Flash_Crash&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;2010_Flash_Crash&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>