So it's a known fact that until trouble began at Mt. Gox in February, CEO Mark Karpeles was residing in a swanky Tokyo apartment building called "La Tour Aobadai". It was listed as his public home address, and he posted some photos from his apartment on Twitter, e.g.



(There was actually another nighttime photo of the same view along which he tweeted "View from my new apt~" sometime in 2012, but it seems to have been deleted (even though it was still there literally yesterday!))

I went and recreated the view in Google Maps. Image for the lazy below.



The edge of the building you can see in the lower-left corner is the roof of "La Tour Aobadai". Pretty convincing, no?

Karpeles moved out of the apartment shortly before trouble began at Mt. Gox, as evidenced by the protesters who went to pay him a visit during this time (only to find he'd already hightailed his ass out of there).

So then there was the infamous "Tokyo sunset" tweet from a few days ago:



Now, turn the Google Maps recreation above 180 degrees...:



Aaaand he's back to living in the same apartment building, except this time he's on the north-west side rather than the south-east side.

Judging from the angle and altitude of the photo, it is almost certain that it was taken from a corner apartment on one of the higher floors, which are also the most expensive. Here's a vacancy for a similar apartment, on the same corner Karpeles is living. In fact, he may have just taken the photo straight from the shitter, as if symbolically emptying his bowels all over the Mt. Gox creditors



The scenery behind the toilet is identical to the one in his photo. You may also notice that the rent for this place is 1.6 million yen. That's around $16,000 per MONTH.

Now how the fuck is this possible?

I am buying GoxBTC at 70% of real BTC, up to 26 real BTC (as of writing, Mt. Gox is trading at roughly 67% of Bitstamp price).

Given my newbie status, I will send first (provided you seem trustworthy based on posts/past trades on this forum), split over smaller transactions.

PM if interested.

Definitely.

I'm residing in Japan for a couple of years, and occasionally have to send some money back home. I used to have to use wire transfers for that, and pay ridiculous ~$50 fees over a ~$2500 transfer. Now I just make a cheap domestic transfer to Gox, buy BTC and use a local Bitcoin service to deposit it straight to my account back home. Slightly less ideal right now due to inflated Gox prices, but still about twice as cheap (and fast!) as a wire transfer.