Just posted this in the wall observer topic but maybe deserves a separate thread
My personal speculation is that he is selling mtgox ltd and keeping tibanne
A friend of mine just sent me this
https://github.com/apngasm/apngasm/blob/master/BACKERS.txtHe is working remotely for a Japan company and his employer just realized that one of the backers of his kickstarter is the guy from the breaking news today.
"Mark Karpeles
http://www.tibanne.com/ PHP can do stuff!"
The interesting part is that today he changed the referral site from
http://www.mtgox.com/ to
http://www.tibanne.com/He said he was a "very generous donor"
"It looks like he was an active backer on KickStarter, backing over 100 projects with the most recent ending less than a month ago. Many of the projects he backed were Open Source software or hardware."
"every project he backed is a project I would back. He has extremely good taste"
"I've had no contact with him other than the kickstarter survey though. He has not repsponed to any of may messages through KS"
