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1961  Economy / Digital goods / Re: Auroracoins.com and Auroracoins.org on: March 13, 2014, 10:20:09 PM
Everything is open to negotiate Smiley

Just don't hurt my feelings lol

clearly you want retail, and you are targeting the audience most receptive to the product so the only way I would entertain it is with a below wholesale number, essentially buying your position to market to the same audience.

My number is likely to not just hurt, but perhaps cause bruising and swelling.   

I assure you it won't look as bad as what some of these guy will do if you stick around long enough.




1962  Other / Off-topic / Re: The Importance Of Critical Thinking on: March 13, 2014, 10:10:28 PM
Armis(the game) will fade into oblivion. A failed attempt at re-inventing chess, pointless.

Everything will fade into oblivion, including but not limited to Armis, Chess, all games, the earth, this universe ... so what's your point?


If I had a nickel for every time someone looked at the game and said "chess".

Armis is as much a 'reinvention' of Chess as Chess is a reinvention of Checkers and Checkers a reinvention of Mancala.  Each one is a strategy games where players' rely on intelligence over luck to win, checkers is more complex than mancala, Chess is more complex than Checkers, and Armis is more complex than Chess.  

With Chess, Checkers, and Manchala there is only a single mirrored setup on a symmetric board , with Armis there are over a million ways to set-up, the setup is identical not mirrored and it is played on an asymmetric board.   Here's a comparison chart to give you a better appreciation of the difference between some of the more popular strategy games:   https://sites.google.com/site/armisboardgame/Home/comparison.jpg.  IMO, #3  is wrong because a mirror image is not "Identical" to the image it is reflecting; your left hand is your mirror image's right hand, with Armis the setups are actually identical.  

It took Chess about 100 years to reach 130 different countries, it took Armis 3 years.  Some of the smartest schools around the world are using Armis:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOKnExcoCQ4






1963  Economy / Digital goods / Re: Auroracoins.com and Auroracoins.org on: March 13, 2014, 09:28:11 PM
Auroracoins.com and Auroracoins.org

Buyer never sent BTC so back up and available.

15 Bitcoin takes both, Moniker.com Push of ownership.



I'm perhaps the most generous of cryptocurrency domain names on the boards, but that rate is a bit steep for even me.

1964  Economy / Digital goods / Re: AuroraCoin.com - for sale on: March 13, 2014, 06:52:53 PM
what's the price, I'm interested
1965  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: Criminal complaint against Mt. Gox and Mark Karpeles on: March 13, 2014, 06:41:15 PM
There seems to be a lot of confusion in here, so let me make at least this point clear:

The SEC is a civil enforcement agency, it does not have the power to bring criminal charges.  That's why Shavers was never arrested for his actions related to his bitcoin investment scam.  At the federal level, only the US Attorney's office can bring (non-military) criminal actions against an individual.  

it doesn't matter who has the power to arrest, bring charges, judge, incarcerate, or exterminate; the community wants swift action not procrastination.

It matters in determining who the community needs to put pressure on if it wants a particular result.  You can say it doesn't matter who does what and you just want it done, but that statement isn't productive.  No matter how much you yell at McDonalds, they're never going to make you Whopper. 

Mt Gox screwed up in multiple ways, over multiple jurisdictions, in many countries as such complaints should be made to ALL.

I'm told Mark has a fraud issue that predates his gox association, if this impacts his civil bankruptcy plea AND concern USA, Japanese, and French authorities concerning civil and criminal matters all of them should be aware of it, let each one decide how to use the intelligence.  If you want to report it to Burger King and McDonalds that's up to you.


1966  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: Criminal complaint against Mt. Gox and Mark Karpeles on: March 13, 2014, 05:08:43 PM
There seems to be a lot of confusion in here, so let me make at least this point clear:

The SEC is a civil enforcement agency, it does not have the power to bring criminal charges.  That's why Shavers was never arrested for his actions related to his bitcoin investment scam.  At the federal level, only the US Attorney's office can bring (non-military) criminal actions against an individual.  

it doesn't matter who has the power to arrest, bring charges, judge, incarcerate, or exterminate; the community wants swift action not procrastination.
1967  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: Criminal complaint against Mt. Gox and Mark Karpeles on: March 13, 2014, 04:26:07 PM
Karpeles' Fraud History    [WE ARE CONNECTING THE DOTS AT: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=492776.0;all]


http://gawker.com/does-mt-goxs-ceo-have-a-secret-history-of-online-payme-1534752110

"In the wake of Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox announcing that it lost $473 million worth of the virtual currency, many people who saw their money disappear have called for CEO Mark Karpeles to be imprisoned. Well, funny thing: it wouldn't necessarily be the first time Karpeles has been arrested for fraud.

As pointed out to Gawker by a tipster who wishes to remain anonymous, Karpeles seems to discuss a past arrest concerning "payment systems on the internet" in a 2006 post on his blog Magical Tux. The post, like all on the blog Karpeles links to in his Twitter bio, is in French, but the tipster translated the relevant section on his personal Tumblr:

Indeed, during my misspent youth, I made a huge, huge mistake. Enough silliness that I found myself locked into custody and brought temporarily placed in the "mousetrap" (souricière: possibly "n.f. (pol.): 'Baited trap' laid by the forces of law-and-order."). This was followed by an investigation of more than a year, which eventually ended in a trial.

I will not give too much detail about what I did wrong, just say it concerns payment systems on the Internet. I spent two years taking risks becoming larger, perhaps because it was an exciting side … whatever, I ended up getting arrested (in rather bizarre circumstances, noting that when I was arrested, I was just in a police station to file a complaint for something else). Anyway, I was released four days later and placed under "judicial review". Basically I did not have the right to leave France and I had to go regularly to the courthouse to speak to someone who was going to see if I lived in "the right way".

...

In the end, the trial was not concluded too bad for me (3 months suspended sentence disappearing after 5 years, and nothing in the criminal record).
A Google translate for the blog post returns the same story, albeit in less smooth English.

According to Karpeles' blog post, the fallout from this "huge, huge mistake" is why he eventually migrated to Japan, where he now lives. There is almost no evidence of Karpeles' possible past arrest on the internet, perhaps because, as the blog post claims, his sentence would have been wiped from records somewhere around two years ago.

But a recent story in the French paper Le Journal de Sâone et Loire, that includes quotes from Karpeles' mother Anne, says that after starting an IT company in Paris, Karpeles left the city after being caught committing "computer fraud." This small tidbit was noticed by Reddit's Bitcoin forum, but has not yet trickled up to the media until now.

If Karpeles does have a history of committing fraud, it doesn't necessarily mean that he did anything wrong legally or morally with Mt. Gox's Bitcoins. But it probably won't make the people out $473 million sleep any easier.

The Bitcoin community will surely learn a number of lessons from the Mt. Gox disaster, and here is a simple one: when investing in Bitcoin, make sure the guy you're trusting with your money doesn't have a secret past committing fraud. Even if that means finding someone who knows French."


Here is additional relevant and related back-story:
http://www.lejsl.com/saone-et-loire/2014/03/01/un-qi-superieur-a-la-moyenne  [the translation is pretty bad]

Before talking to him in the world Mark Karpeles grew up in Dijon. His mother tells the journey of this computer genius.

The man who is now the most hated Internet has boiled teenager. A chubby face "geek" who scares anyone. And yet, this young 28 year old man born in Chenôve is now the target of all fantasies on the internet. Friday, after disappearing for three days, Mark Karpeles admitted to losing the $ 480 million that were stored in virtual currency on its site, MtGox. More than one million users have lost small fortunes in history.

A higher IQ than the average

If apologized, Mark Karpeles still remains in the sights of Japanese and U.S. authorities. The disappearance of that could be fraudulent. Nothing to worry his mother, contacted Friday and an impressive calm on the phone. "I know that Mark will do what it takes. If it is hidden for three days, it's just to gain strength and confront what awaits "says the Dijon now based in Switzerland. "And if he was really worried he would have called me. "

If Anne Karpeles talks about his son as if nothing had happened "for two minutes" that have lasted 15, the scandal generated by Mark resounding. However, the course of Mark Karpeles is nothing that a highwayman able to disappear in a few days, as he did Monday. Born in Chenôve in 1985, Mark Karpeles lived his early years in Côte-d'Or, with his mother, a geologist. He attended school Chevreul, lives in the city center of Dijon and already passionate about IT. "I think we did our first program together, Dijon, when he was 10 years old. "

Because the boy is early. An IQ test diagnostic her intelligence above average. "But there was no effort at school," laughs his mother, not stressed by the ordeals by his son. "I made him do the cooking, sewing, sport, but he mostly hung with computers. "At the point of becoming a genius, even if Anne Karpeles not pronounce the word. "Admittedly, it is not bad in the kitchen either. By cons, it can barely sew on a button (laughs). "A computer genius who, baccalaureate - got to Paris, where his mother had moved - begins in an IT company in Paris. He left the capital a little faster, accused, according to our information, computer fraud. He moved to Japan, where he bought in 2011 MtGox. It is the platform number 1 of Bitcoin. Until February 7, when the first bug, the site managed 80% of global Bitcoin transactions. Suffice to say it was worth a fortune. Today, Mark Karpeles, is accused by the Internet community to be incompetent - at best - or a crook. Nothing to worry his mother who, unlike his son, a young dad, kept ties in Côte-d'Or. "The last time I went to visit him in Japan, its website had been attacked. He solved the problem overnight, "says Anne Karpeles. "I'm sure it will still succeed this time. "Before starting, a knowing smile, a lapidary:" And $ 480 million is what we see when playing with what states and financiers. "

For the background, see the little guy Chenôve now married to a Japanese attacked on all sides, Anne Karpeles expected. "The computer world is hard. And when we know how the Bitcoin angry central banks, governments, one can understand that my son disturbed. "At the point of today find themselves propelled to the front of the stage. Not bad for the former shy child the Rue Neuve-Bergère de Dijon."
1968  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: [GOX] Crime Scene Investigation, Case #MG744 on: March 13, 2014, 04:24:09 PM


http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9246921/Mt._Gox_kept_exchange_open_despite_knowledge_of_large_scale_theft?taxonomyId=144&pageNumber=1



Mt. Gox kept exchange open despite knowledge of large-scale theft
Exchange continued to operate and collect transaction fees despite its troubles, U.S. bankruptcy filing suggests

By Jeremy Kirk
March 12, 2014 08:53 PM ET
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IDG News Service - Mt. Gox may have collected a large sum in trading fees in the weeks before its closure, even though it was already aware that a vast number of bitcoins had gone missing, its U.S. bankruptcy filing suggests.

A sworn declaration in the filing from Robert Marie Mark Karpeles, Mt. Gox 's CEO, reveals that the Bitcoin exchange knew in early February that its situation was far graver than it had disclosed at the time.

Mt. Gox halted bitcoin withdrawals from its exchange on Feb. 7. It told customers it was investigating possible fraud due to a security issue called transaction malleability, but did not specify at the time how many bitcoins were missing. Buying and selling on the exchange continued until Feb. 25, when its website went dark.

Mt. Gox's first disclosure of the scale of its problems came when it filed for bankruptcy protection in Tokyo District Court three days later, saying 750,000 of its customers' bitcoins were missing, along with 100,000 of its own.

It appears from the U.S. bankruptcy filing that Mt. Gox executives knew the gravity of the company's losses up to 19 days before its public disclosure, but gave traders no reason at the time to believe the exchange might not be solvent.

In the filing, Karpeles states that the withdrawals were halted Feb. 7 due to "the theft or disappearance of hundreds of thousands of bitcoins owned by Mt. Gox customers as well as Mt. Gox itself."

Why Mt. Gox continued to operate the exchange with that knowledge is unclear.

Karpeles did not respond to a request for comment for this article sent to his personal email address.

The impact of Mt. Gox allowing customers to buy and sell bitcoins it suspected it did not have may be revealed by class-action lawsuits, one of which was filed in Chicago on Feb. 27, and another of which is planned in the U.K.

"They took trading fees on assets which didn't exist and accepted deposits when they knew they were insolvent," Aaron G., a Bitcoin investor who did not want his last name used, said via email.A

"The origin of the losses may or may not be incompetence," added Aaron, who has filed a fraud complaint against Mt. Gox with Tokyo police. "But they knew for at least two weeks and kept operating as normal."


After Feb. 7, Mt. Gox was still processing thousands of trades a day, according to Bitcoincharts.com, which records trading volumes for many Bitcoin markets.

 

An average of 49,912 bitcoins were traded daily on Mt. Gox between Feb. 7 and Feb. 25, at an average weighted price of $380.54 per bitcoin.
1969  Economy / Digital goods / Domain Name For Sale #26 ---> www.CRYPTOCURRENCYINSTRUCTOR.COM $2,000. on: March 13, 2014, 03:58:22 PM
Domain Name For Sale #26 ---> www.CRYPTOCURRENCYINSTRUCTOR.COM  $2,000.

I will consider all offers, including but not limited to: trade, a partnership arrangement with the domain being my equity contribution. or good old (or new) fashion currency
 

Yes, I have other cryptocurrency domains available for sale and am willing to bundle, click above link to see other names.
1970  Other / Off-topic / Re: The Importance Of Critical Thinking on: March 13, 2014, 03:44:24 PM
This is a topic close to my heart

As I have a 2 year old at home, I am figuring out how to best stimulate him and foster critical thinking ability


Whoa, a 2 year old, now that early.

We start early with bright 8yr old, but 10yr should be learning critical thinking in school


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-D99w85sCs0
1971  Other / Off-topic / Re: The Importance Of Critical Thinking on: March 13, 2014, 04:01:07 AM
The Academics of Critical Thinking

Every institution of learning is rooted on a logical-thinking foundation. critical thinking is used to make a good system better. According to Logical, Critical, and Creative Thinking  By T.N. Turner Pearson Allyn Bacon: “[w]hen evaluation is based on analysis, as it normally is, then critical thinking involves often complex logical reasoning. Critical thinking requires comparing a personal [institutional, or corporate] set of experiences and values to current experiences, newly encountered data, and decision- and judgment-demanding situations.”  Meagan Meehan in The importance of critical thinking says: “[h]omeschoolers have an advantage for learning critical thinking skills because they can largely make their own curriculum and incorporate critical thinking lessons into it”  

To us it really doesn’t matter if the education is institutional or home grown, the importance is acquiring the skills.  Here are our 5 steps to critical thinking during Armis game play juxtaposed with the same steps in relation to academic success:

1) Analysis and Assessment
2) Planning
3) Risk Assessment
4) Action
and
5) Reaction, Effect, and Experience

1) Analysis and Assessment - before you start any endeavor is important to know the rules that govern it.  For Armis you should read the rules; the equivalent for any level of school is reading the syllabus.

Then familiarize yourself with the environment, for Armis that means knowing the game board and player pieces; for school that mean knowing your teacher/professor, classmates, school building/campus, and key faculty (Principal, Dean, Advisers).

Now that you know what you are expected to do and where you are expected to perform the next step is to assess values so that you properly budget your efforts and resources.

2) Planning - In Armis there are over a million ways to properly setup , so after a setup is formed you should map and manage offensive and defensive strategies; for school you do the same with respect to an offensive strategy, the defensive strategy is less academic and more social. However, if it can impact your academic performance in a meaningful way it must be factored into your planning.

3) Risk Assessment - this is where you say "What if?", not just "What if he does?", but also "What if she doesn't?" for the game it is weighing probabilities that a player will do, or not do, certain actions; for school it has more to do with what can happen if you don't do as expected or planned. Not only on the macro level: 'what if I don't graduate', but also on the micro level: 'what if I oversleep, barely eat, or fail to exercise', 'what if I skip a class, or a homework assignment?'.

4) Action - for Armis this is where you make your move; for school this is where you: participate in class, hand in homework, take a test, and/or submit a paper.

and

5)  Reaction, Effect, and Experience - for Armis it is as much how your opponent’s reacts (or lack of reaction) as much as what effect that specific move has on the rest of the game. For school it is about how the instructor and class respond to your class participation, the teacher's feedback on a homework assignment or term paper, your professor’s feedback on a paper, as well as your academic ranking.  

Everything counts, as such the information that make up 1 - 5 including your opponent’s move, we consider to be a single whole experience.  Each move you make should be made with the intelligence of your experience. Likewise, everything you do, or don’t do, during your time in school impacts your academic success.


continued at: http://www.armisgame.com/Home/armis-for-schools-worldwide/critical-thinking
1972  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / After Mt Gox STD, How To Protect Yourself In The Future on: March 13, 2014, 02:59:14 AM
Here's a 1 year btc chart, let's talk about it




Particularly how the 'BMGSTD' and 'AMGSTD' (Before & After Mt Gox Site Take Down) reshapes our perspective on, and future of, Bitcoin.

Late Jan and early feb is when the BTC community was in shock, the marketplace was desolate compared to the time just before or after it.

Notice how when btc holders got what they prayed for: 'another chance to buy btc at $500+', instead of a mad rush to buy, buy, buy, they sold, sold, sold; the sell-off recorded the 2nd highest in bitcoin history.   

To me, the world is pretty comfortable with a $600+ btc, but aactually frightened by a $500+ btc.  Wish we had a chart from Coinbase to get feel of what the USA thinks about BTC AMGSTD


What do you gleem from the chart(s), how are you protecting your bitcoins?


1973  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How about this for a good laugh ... on: March 13, 2014, 01:37:20 AM
I wrote it down, I still don't get it. Cheesy  I'm going to mark it down as top class trolling.

aka "Sokal affair" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair

1974  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How about this for a very good laugh ... on: March 13, 2014, 12:18:57 AM


yes, you are correct, but I think it's actually funnier when viewing the whole vid
1975  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / How about this for a good laugh ... on: March 13, 2014, 12:04:09 AM
Here's the setup, a Princeton professor is answering questions about bitcoin on Cspan, almost all of the questions span the range of the bitcoin audience, but this one question just threw everyone (including myself) for a loop, it wasn't until he repeated the quested that I simply could not stop laughing ...

enjoy

start video at 35:33
http://youtu.be/zGehq2xA-P4?t=35m33s

1976  Other / Off-topic / The Importance Of Critical Thinking on: March 12, 2014, 09:54:58 PM
Strategy games rely on a player’s mental capacity to outwit his opponent, this differs from most other games that primarily rely on luck (roll of the dice, and/or pick of a card) to win.  Brain games are often distinguished from strategy games in that they focus on static information you may know, and how fast you process it.  Strategy board games are affectionately considered brain games because they are often accompanied by lots and lots of meaningful thinking.

Checkers, and warri (also called mancala) are perhaps the most basic of strategy board games, these games are played more for fun than competition so they don’t often get to enjoy the ‘strategy game’ cache.  In both games all of the individual player pieces essentially have the same power, duty, and movement ability.

The board game called “Go” is very similar to checkers and warri in the power, duty, and movement ability categories, however it is often played competitively as such it is often called a strategy board game.  

Chess is the most well known of all strategy board games.  In our opinion it rises above the previously mentioned games in that various player pieces have different powers, duties, and movement abilities, these differences add a layer of complexity to the game.  

Armis is the newest member of the strategy board game family, it is distinguished from the others in many ways, so much so that we believe Armis is the first HIGH strategy board game.  Here are some major distinguishing characteristics:

1)  an asymmetric game board,
2)  5 different environments (land, air, coastal waters, deep surface waters, and deep submerged waters)
3)  some pieces have conditional powers,
4)   identical not mirrored (your right hand in the mirror is your reflection’s left hand) setup
and
5)  there are over a million ways to properly setup

Armis was created in the USA for brain game enthusiasts worldwide, it is currently played online in over 130 countries.  Some say playing Armis is like playing Chess, Checkers, Risk, and Stratego all at the same time.

.
Critical Thinking For Children

Armis is enjoyed by thinkers of all ages; the Armis for Schools Worldwide program uses Armis to help students to develop critical thinking skills at many schools around the world. .

Marilyn Price-Mitchell, PhD, of Roots of Action, said:“critical thinking skills don’t fully develop until adolescence but the foundations for good thinking develop in younger children.”  In Logical, Critical, and Creative Thinking  By T.N. Turner Pearson Turner says: “[h]elping students learn to think logically should lead them to critical and creative thought processes...” at Armis we agree wholeheartedly, we have found that children as young as 8 years old can grasp the fundamental principles of critical thinking.  

When asked: “What is Critical Thinking?” Michael Austin, author of Standards of Critical Thinking said: “... [it] is disciplined thinking that is governed by clear intellectual standards,” he continued saying: “[it] involves identifying and analyzing arguments and truth claims, ... developing your own reasons and arguments in favor of what you believe...”  Timothy Bednarz, Ph.D. in Leaders To Leaders said: “Critical Thinking is able to translate the thinking process into clear, persuasive, truthful language, which is carefully and logically crafted …  [e]very process or method is made of essential components, and critical thinking is no different ... perception, assumptions, emotion, language, argument, fallacy, logic, and problem solving.”   Closely related to Critical Thinking is Logical Thinking, according to Christina Sponias in How to Improve Logical Thinking Skills “ … logic is a particular method of reasoning … if we want to improve our logical thinking skills, we have to improve our capacity to judge reality.”

Armis is designed to teach students how to know how to know, once that is understood it is very easy to apply that knowledge process to academic environments.  At Armis we believe:

'A' students are those who know how to know and consistently apply it,
'B' students are those who know how to know but don't regularly advance it,
'C' students often don't know how to know but benefit greatly by their genuine interest in various academic subjects,
'D' students often don't know how to know and have low interest in academic subjects,
and
'F' students often don't care to know how to know,

The Armis for Schools Worldwide program enables ‘C’ and ‘D’ average student to know how to know by way of our 5 step critical thinking process.  The process readies them to be ‘A’ and ‘B’ average students in a relatively short period of time.
 
The Academics of Critical Thinking
Every institution of learning is rooted on a logical-thinking foundation. critical thinking is used to make a good system better. According to Logical, Critical, and Creative Thinking  By T.N. Turner Pearson Allyn Bacon: “[w]hen evaluation is based on analysis, as it normally is, then critical thinking involves often complex logical reasoning. Critical thinking requires comparing a personal [institutional, or corporate] set of experiences and values to current experiences, newly encountered data, and decision- and judgment-demanding situations.”  Meagan Meehan in The importance of critical thinking says: “[h]omeschoolers have an advantage for learning critical thinking skills because they can largely make their own curriculum and incorporate critical thinking lessons into it”  


1977  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: [GOX] Crime Scene Investigation, Case #MG744 on: March 12, 2014, 07:07:51 PM
Anyone can verify the bankruptcy protection laws in USA and Japan?

In many parts of the world the owner of the company can't have a criminal past to apply for brakrupt protection. It seems Mark has a charge for fraud in France.





That is very interesting on multiple fronts.  Could you elaborate further, perhaps indicate the charge, story, accusation, include dates, amounts, etc ...

thanks

http://gawker.com/does-mt-goxs-ceo-have-a-secret-history-of-online-payme-1534752110


Great, thanks, I will post the info from the link so that all could read it, also to have it before it disappears or changes.

"In the wake of Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox announcing that it lost $473 million worth of the virtual currency, many people who saw their money disappear have called for CEO Mark Karpeles to be imprisoned. Well, funny thing: it wouldn't necessarily be the first time Karpeles has been arrested for fraud.

As pointed out to Gawker by a tipster who wishes to remain anonymous, Karpeles seems to discuss a past arrest concerning "payment systems on the internet" in a 2006 post on his blog Magical Tux. The post, like all on the blog Karpeles links to in his Twitter bio, is in French, but the tipster translated the relevant section on his personal Tumblr:

Indeed, during my misspent youth, I made a huge, huge mistake. Enough silliness that I found myself locked into custody and brought temporarily placed in the "mousetrap" (souricière: possibly "n.f. (pol.): 'Baited trap' laid by the forces of law-and-order."). This was followed by an investigation of more than a year, which eventually ended in a trial.

I will not give too much detail about what I did wrong, just say it concerns payment systems on the Internet. I spent two years taking risks becoming larger, perhaps because it was an exciting side … whatever, I ended up getting arrested (in rather bizarre circumstances, noting that when I was arrested, I was just in a police station to file a complaint for something else). Anyway, I was released four days later and placed under "judicial review". Basically I did not have the right to leave France and I had to go regularly to the courthouse to speak to someone who was going to see if I lived in "the right way".

...

In the end, the trial was not concluded too bad for me (3 months suspended sentence disappearing after 5 years, and nothing in the criminal record).
A Google translate for the blog post returns the same story, albeit in less smooth English.

According to Karpeles' blog post, the fallout from this "huge, huge mistake" is why he eventually migrated to Japan, where he now lives. There is almost no evidence of Karpeles' possible past arrest on the internet, perhaps because, as the blog post claims, his sentence would have been wiped from records somewhere around two years ago.

But a recent story in the French paper Le Journal de Sâone et Loire, that includes quotes from Karpeles' mother Anne, says that after starting an IT company in Paris, Karpeles left the city after being caught committing "computer fraud." This small tidbit was noticed by Reddit's Bitcoin forum, but has not yet trickled up to the media until now.

If Karpeles does have a history of committing fraud, it doesn't necessarily mean that he did anything wrong legally or morally with Mt. Gox's Bitcoins. But it probably won't make the people out $473 million sleep any easier.

The Bitcoin community will surely learn a number of lessons from the Mt. Gox disaster, and here is a simple one: when investing in Bitcoin, make sure the guy you're trusting with your money doesn't have a secret past committing fraud. Even if that means finding someone who knows French."



Here is additional relevant and related back-story:
http://www.lejsl.com/saone-et-loire/2014/03/01/un-qi-superieur-a-la-moyenne  [the translation is pretty bad]


Before talking to him in the world Mark Karpeles grew up in Dijon. His mother tells the journey of this computer genius.

The man who is now the most hated Internet has boiled teenager. A chubby face "geek" who scares anyone. And yet, this young 28 year old man born in Chenôve is now the target of all fantasies on the internet. Friday, after disappearing for three days, Mark Karpeles admitted to losing the $ 480 million that were stored in virtual currency on its site, MtGox. More than one million users have lost small fortunes in history.

A higher IQ than the average

If apologized, Mark Karpeles still remains in the sights of Japanese and U.S. authorities. The disappearance of that could be fraudulent. Nothing to worry his mother, contacted Friday and an impressive calm on the phone. "I know that Mark will do what it takes. If it is hidden for three days, it's just to gain strength and confront what awaits "says the Dijon now based in Switzerland. "And if he was really worried he would have called me. "

If Anne Karpeles talks about his son as if nothing had happened "for two minutes" that have lasted 15, the scandal generated by Mark resounding. However, the course of Mark Karpeles is nothing that a highwayman able to disappear in a few days, as he did Monday. Born in Chenôve in 1985, Mark Karpeles lived his early years in Côte-d'Or, with his mother, a geologist. He attended school Chevreul, lives in the city center of Dijon and already passionate about IT. "I think we did our first program together, Dijon, when he was 10 years old. "

Because the boy is early. An IQ test diagnostic her intelligence above average. "But there was no effort at school," laughs his mother, not stressed by the ordeals by his son. "I made him do the cooking, sewing, sport, but he mostly hung with computers. "At the point of becoming a genius, even if Anne Karpeles not pronounce the word. "Admittedly, it is not bad in the kitchen either. By cons, it can barely sew on a button (laughs). "A computer genius who, baccalaureate - got to Paris, where his mother had moved - begins in an IT company in Paris. He left the capital a little faster, accused, according to our information, computer fraud. He moved to Japan, where he bought in 2011 MtGox. It is the platform number 1 of Bitcoin. Until February 7, when the first bug, the site managed 80% of global Bitcoin transactions. Suffice to say it was worth a fortune. Today, Mark Karpeles, is accused by the Internet community to be incompetent - at best - or a crook. Nothing to worry his mother who, unlike his son, a young dad, kept ties in Côte-d'Or. "The last time I went to visit him in Japan, its website had been attacked. He solved the problem overnight, "says Anne Karpeles. "I'm sure it will still succeed this time. "Before starting, a knowing smile, a lapidary:" And $ 480 million is what we see when playing with what states and financiers. "

For the background, see the little guy Chenôve now married to a Japanese attacked on all sides, Anne Karpeles expected. "The computer world is hard. And when we know how the Bitcoin angry central banks, governments, one can understand that my son disturbed. "At the point of today find themselves propelled to the front of the stage. Not bad for the former shy child the Rue Neuve-Bergère de Dijon."
1978  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I dont' know how to feel about this.Jim Harper and Amy Weiss to join BF on: March 12, 2014, 06:30:56 PM
We know what you mean, but here is some info for reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Crypto
And here is a link for your reference. I've used a small "a", even though the link is resolved to a capital:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/asshole


Ignorant: not knowing
Intelligence: Knowledge
Stupid: knowing the difference between right and wrong but purposely choosing wrong anyway.

It on you from here.  hahahahahaa




1979  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I dont' know how to feel about this.Jim Harper and Amy Weiss to join BF on: March 12, 2014, 01:44:22 PM
These people....

So NOT crypto

Not representative of the bitcoin community at all.

Basically BF are getting a team together to control bitcoin like a bank/corporation.

So NOT crypto

Self appointed heads of a headless organisation.

So NOT crypto

We know what you mean, but here is some info for reference:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Crypto


1980  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: [GOX] Crime Scene Investigation, Case #MG744 on: March 12, 2014, 01:34:58 PM
Anyone can verify the bankruptcy protection laws in USA and Japan?

In many parts of the world the owner of the company can't have a criminal past to apply for brakrupt protection. It seems Mark has a charge for fraud in France.





That is very interesting on multiple fronts.  Could you elaborate further, perhaps indicate the charge, story, accusation, include dates, amounts, etc ...

thanks
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