The closest to regulatory compliance I can see is Coinbase, which is at least registered with FinCEN and working toward figuring out the regulations in any states where it might be necessary.  They also appear to have (if their claims are accurate), a reasonably good protocol for securing coins and keeping them in cold storage.  

Gox claimed to have cold storage, but I don't see how that claim can possibly be consistent with losing the vast majority of customer funds.  

This goddamn cancer is completely taking over the board.  Is anyone moderating?

It's sort of like "I'm not a racist, but. . ." is invariably followed by something racist, and anything that comes before "no homo" is the gayest thing you ever heard (not that there's anything wrong with that).

I doubt that.  The media is usually downright gleeful at any chance to piss on Bitcoin.  This is just more chum for the sharks.

Damn.  I forgot this thread existed for a minute and was hoping it was about Karpeles.

Not much, at this point.  But at least they have a bonfire of money already burning to throw it in.

So why does what actually happened in reality seem to correspond to what's in the document?  gox.com now points to mtgox.com, which is now a blanked page.  On top of that, they closed their support ticket system.  Someone had to do that deliberately.  Or did trolls somehow fake that, too?

There was the occasional sheriff in the Wild West.  And malefactors got strung up or at least horse whipped, tarred and feathered, and run out of town on a rail.

In any event, this amateur hour bullshit needs to end.  How difficult is it to comprehend the idea that people who run an online trading game card exchange are not necessarily to be trusted with hundreds of thousands of other people's BTC and millions in fiat?

So they were basically too busy smoking weed they bought off Silk Road to pay any attention to what was actually going on at their exchange.  Fish in a barrel.

Fucking idiots.

So basically, aside from some corpspeak bibble-babble, their strategy is to change their name.  Because that's all I took away from that load of happy horseshit.

Well, if true, one hopes it is punctuated by a loud cry on the way to the prison.

Nobody in their right mind would risk a mandatory minimum life sentence to deal drugs for any amount of money.

So which countries during the Enlightenment practiced anarchy successfully?  I seem to recall most nations were monarchies at the time.  You know, kings like Charles II, William and Mary, Louis XIV, Leopold II in Italy (who among other enlightened things abolished the death penalty), etc.  Are you honestly citing this period in history as an argument in favor of anarchy? 

Because in the nations where Enlightenment thinking actually took root and was enacted, it was generally through the absolute power of monarchs.  When the monarchs didn't want to go along, they were sometimes eliminated, like in the French Revolution, but they were certainly not replaced by anarchy, but by an even more tyrannical Terror apparatus such as that of Robespierre.

When I think of Enlightenment political thinkers, names that come to mind are Montesquieu (who gave the Framers of the U.S. Constitution the concepts of separation of powers), John Locke (whose political philosophy certainly concerned principles of government and not anarchy), Voltaire (who once worked for King Frederick the Great), and numerous others who were known not for wanting to abolish government, but to change its form, particularly from monarchies to republics.  Rousseau, I'll give you.

Many of these thinkers were deeply influenced by Thomas Hobbes, who was the exact opposite of an anarchist.

I am completely at a loss how you can cite the Enlightenment in support of your position.

Keyser Söze bitch.

Stay out of my territory.

Damn.  If I want anyone cowed into compliance, I'm calling you!

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I'm pleasantly surprised to be wrong about my cynical assumptions.  My opinion is that this resignation was demanded and is basically a "quit or be fired" situation.  So I retract this hostile comment.

There was a ring of pretty brazen PLO cheats at the 6 handed tables for a while, and they shut those guys down, seized their funds and refunded players.  

There are ways of colluding that are not so readily apparent, though.  Just using collusive strategies in a few key hands can give a significant advantage without standing out like a sore thumb.  If the cheats don't get greedy they can get away with it for a while.  If they've already cashed out by the time they're caught, the site ends up holding the bag.  Pretty sure Seals would make good on it, but there's no guarantee any particular cheat gets caught.

Note:  not at all unique to Seals.  There was (and I assume is) plenty of suspicious activity even on a completely on the up and up cash site like Poker Stars, and they have a very active anti-cheating program.

What's funny is a lot of the worst cheats who get caught are also terrible players who lose despite cheating.  But a good player who cheats is pretty much unbeatable.

Anyway, the action on Seals is no more shady than on any other poker site and better than some real money sites, especially if you remember the old Absolute/UltimateBet, which was shady as hell.  Not just the notorious cases, but even at the lower levels where I played.  They honestly couldn't give a shit if people were blatantly colluding.

One wonders if the purpose of the BCF is, in fact, simply to lend a group of self-interested bad actors a veneer of credibility.  I will certainly start to think that if they don't get rid of someone who, whether or not he is an outright crook (there is not sufficient information to decide that), has acted absolutely imprudently and incompetently and caused incalculable harm to the Bitcoin community.

The BCF does not appear to stand for peons like us, but instead, "great men" like Mark Karpeles.

Why are you explaining the definite article in German to Karpeles?  Are you a German instructor?