Interview with Mark Karpeles on Wickedfire: Crisis Draft legit! (link inside)

[sinx13]

Read it here:

http://www.wickedfire.com/shooting-shit/179038-my-conversation-mark-karpeles-mtgox-2.html#post2164682

] <JonWickedFire> Is that Crisis Strategy Draft even legit?
[11:04] <MagicalTux> more or less
[11:05] <MagicalTux> as the name suggests it's a draft, and it's a bunch of proposals to deal with the issue at hand, not things that are actually planned and/or done
[11:06] <MagicalTux> this said this document was not produced by MtGox

He did no say the coins are lost or stolen but they don't know where they are...

[Vandroiy]

An unsigned IRC log by the "Forum Führer" of the "Free Section" "Shooting the Shit".

Thank you for clarifying where we get information today.

[sinx13]

You have no idea what wickedfire is.
Thats one of the major forums for internet marketing.

The style there is a kind of ongoing joke. They call themself "gay admins".
They do it intentional to break the "i am a rich gangster" attitude of all that 16 internet kids who did their first internet million.

The admin there is a pretty successful guy. Do not let fool you.
You have for sure meet a project/website in the last month where the owners are part of wickedfire.

[grifferz]

It seems that the released image of what is alleged to be Karpeles's desk is probably legitimate:

http://imgur.com/GqZr3N5

because it shows

• a Cerulean tower access card
• a cat that matches one from a 2010 video of Karpeles that someone dug up

so on balance of probability I'd say that the linked conversation did happen, though of course we don't know if the published text of it is genuine.

Assuming it is genuine, I still feel that people are reading too much into the "more or less" comment. Nothing else was confirmed except that Karpeles was seeing a lawyer on morning of 26th.

Also speculations about his mental state and personality based on a small IRC transcript that is not even known to be 100% genuine is probably a step too far but I'm sure amuses some.

Wall Street Journal is also saying that MtGox has received a subpoena from feds in New York:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/26/mtgox-subpoena-idUSL3N0LV0UZ20140226

so it is unclear whether Karpeles's legal meeting would be about himself personally, MtGox's future, the subpoena, or a combination of all of these.

I think all we know for sure is that this is nowhere near over, as a source of bitcoin headlines.