NO.

For so many reasons, NO.  I am sorry to those who lost their money.

I have no doubt there is conspiracy and fraud.  I only have doubt that the US Gvmnt  is at the center of it... not Mark Karpeles.

Textbook confirmation bias happening in the thread.

Does no one ever stop to think that no matter how powerful the FBI (who is in charge of DOMESTIC issues by the way, but that is another thing) is they would never be able to take bitcoins away from Mt Gox without the private keys.

How would the FBI or any other government agency get the private keys to Gox's coins?

Think.  Think people.

There is no doubt, though the majority of us in the bitcoin community are law abiding non muderers, there are going to be some types who lurk around the darknet who may be, shall we say, sociopathic to some extent or another.

Could there be any truth to the allegations that DPR hired assassins?It seems possible.  And you have to imagine there are some folks who had fortunes on gox who may indeed have been using BTC to launder money.  Some of them the new digital drug lords...  some who are more old style bad guys just giving the new currency a try.

I would be worried as hell if I were Karpeles.

His life is most certainly in danger.

An important question.  Without any substantive argument the accusation is worthless.

I don't know a lot about the foundation, but I did notice they (most likely) shuffled Karpeles and Gox out the back door summarily.  That is a plus IMHO.

It has nothing to do with the forum, instead it is your browser.  Therefor also your responsibility to add it to your own dictionary.  Right clicking usually helps here.

It is as you think... a game of flipping for blinds.  At least until you start to accumulate a stack... then obviously the dynamics can change a little.

I assume the software doesn't like the idea of the SB = BB so they overcome this by making the SB -.01.

The game is not really my cup of tea as I get enough of this feeling when I play most of the tournaments I play.  However this game will always be instructuve for playing a little push-fold style in a cash setting.

Wow.  He is now actually blaming it on Japan.

Good luck with that.  The Japanese will act bashfully sorry for about 2 seconds before they skewer him.

Uh oh... evidently there are going to be lots of booze and cigars at ristos castle party.

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May your castle party be a great memory for your whole life.

Man in the middle

DO NOT LOG IN IF YOU SEE A BAD CERT.

If you have you better get them to lock your account, and change passwords anywhere else you use that one.  You will have just given it to the hacker.

"In a Gadda da Vida honey..."

--Iron Butterfly

I think this is very instructive.

And yet, we have not seen this exact market condition before...  this time it's a little different in my humble opinion.

If someone were to beat you nearly to death it would be a significant thing.

Today we have transcripts of the CEO admitting the "crisis management" document is "pretty much all true".

That means Mt Gox either sold over 700,000 BTC short, lost them, stole them, or were robbed of them.

I personally believe it is a combination of mostly the first and last items in that list.

Comparing this situation to a bank closing on the weekend is IDIOTIC.  This is a failure of such grave proportions is will be talked about for ages.  It has set bitcoin back YEARS in acceptance and now it is all about damage control.  We are talking tsunami damage, not a little storm.

I personally think bitcoin survives even this.  But it's going to take a long time.

This needs to be repeated again and again.

If one does not control the private keys, one has no bitcoin.

Lol...  Youre sort of right OP.

No proof of insolvency... not as much as proof of near total BANKRUPTCY.

It could be a little inside hint.  Interesting the goat is perched atop the mountain right where the new CEO is being discussed.  A little hint?  Clue?  Flirtation?

I think the best outcome would be someone with the funds to begin to repair the image of bitcoin by fixing Gox is best.  But who on earth has that many bitcoins?

Been waiting for someone to bring this up... dingdingding

Yes indeed folks.  Most of us here have at one time entrusted tens, hundreds, even thousands of thousands of dollars to a business who just showed they believe they can delete the internet.