I say, fine - run it anonymously from Hong Kong for all I care, just be transparent about assets and liabilities so everyone can see that you're solvent.
If someone did this, wouldn't they quickly take the lion's share of volume away from the sketchy exchanges?
Bitfinex has been undergoing third party audit from Friedman for months now. No one cares though and still throw accusations around like confetti.
Anyone who knows this fact and doesnt trust Friedman as a multinational auditor/accountant should say as such, rather than repeating blatant falsehoods.
It quite easy to see what others have to gain from the negative coverage.
Exchanges ddos each other all the time, its a shady industry, 15mins downtime for poloniex can double the weekly income of small exchanges.
I'd hope hn readers see between the lines a bit more rather then jump on bandwagons.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article2...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-0209010315sep01-story...
Is there proof of this? All I've seen (and I may be ignorant of the rest, so this is a legitimate request :) ) is that "note" from Friedman LLP that explicitly stated it was not an audit.
3rd result from googling "friedman bitfinex":
http://www.friedmanllp.com/insights/auditor-engagement
Now you said Friedman "explicitly stated it was not an audit", I searched and all i can find is blog posts and reddit threads. Any chance you could procure this explicit statement? Thanks.
The url I provided says the compete opposite and itself links to the original source I offered.
They seem symbiotic to me (exclusively mutual?).