Some see it as today's version of Willy, the Mt
Gox trading bot that manipulated...
Not exact matches
Many have called USDT the new «Willy
bots of 2017,» recollecting the 2013
trading bots used on Mt
Gox to pump up the price that year.
After Mt.
Gox shut down, someone in the community discovered the existence of two
trading bots, Willy and Markus, that were responsible for massive volumes of suspicious buy orders.
With all the allegations of Mt.
Gox's automated
trading bot, which has been dubbed «Willy», algorithmic
trading is getting a bad rap.
The
bots were capable of taking advantage of a bug on the Mt.
Gox exchange that made it appear as if they were performing valid
trades with lots of bitcoin that didn't really exist.
Cointelegraph Mark Karpeles admitted to prosecutors the so - called «Willy
Bot» existed and
traded at Mt.
Gox.