Mt. Gox creator Jed McCaleb invites ‘alpha testers’ for secret Bitcoin project

[whtchocla7e]

Mt. Gox creator?? Yeah, no thanks. You stay far, far away from bitcoin.

[superresistant]

Mt. Gox creator?? Yeah, no thanks. You stay far, far away from bitcoin.

The MtGox creator never loss any Bitcoin. He sold MtGox years before it happen.

[simtal]

Mt. Gox creator?? Yeah, no thanks. You stay far, far away from bitcoin.

What are you even talking about. Jed has started and ran several high profile ventures and bankrupting gox was not one of them.

[El Cabron]

Mt. Gox creator Jed McCaleb invites ‘alpha testers’ for secret Bitcoin project

i signed up mark ages ago, lol

[CryptoDomains]

Mt. Gox creator Jed McCaleb invites ‘alpha testers’ for secret Bitcoin project

i signed up mark ages ago, lol

AND....

[findftp]

Incase anyone wants to sign up:

http://alphatesters.secretbitcoinproject.com/

Anyone have any idea what this is going to be?

Wild guesses?

I'm trying to think what it could be and I'm honestly coming up with nothing at all.

I think it will be sort of decentralized bitcoin exchange.

Basically http://www.bitcoin.de already functions as a decentralized exchange.
That means, transaction are decentralized but the website is not.

[tokeweed]

they are hiring using the MIT red balloon strategy:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Network_Challenge#Winning_strategy

"Maybe you know someone?
We are using the MIT Red Balloon Challenge strategy to crowdsource the best candidates. To join the search, get your invite link here and share it with people you know. Even if you don't know someone for us to hire, maybe you know someone who knows someone for us!

We will give the person who referred us a candidate whom we hire $5000, but that's not all!
We are also giving $2500 to the person who invited the inviter.
And then we are giving $1250 to the person who invited the inviter of the inviter and so on.
All referral bonuses will be paid after the candidate had had his/her six month anniversary as a full-time employee of the company. "

http://alphatesters.secretbitcoinproject.com/jobs.html

[logger]

You think maybe they could fix the site first?

[tokeweed]

it's temporary for sure.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

https://twitter.com/mwop/status/335479363946545153

http://web.archive.org/web/20020723215517/http://www.overnet.com/about.html

[cccarnation]

I signed up. This is the original owner who sold to Kapeles years ago.

[tokeweed]

https://twitter.com/mwop/status/335479363946545153

http://web.archive.org/web/20020723215517/http://www.overnet.com/about.html

wiretransfer and edonkey?

[tokeweed]

but seriously tho.  i wonder what jed's project could bring in and innovate in the crypto currency scene.  i mean we already have btc and all the other altcoins.  we already got decentralized and distributed exchanges in nxt and ripple.  ethereum and its scripting language and smart contracts are coming. and ripple is developing smart contracts too.  

what is this idea of his that would blow the crypto currency community away?

anyone care to speculate?

[illymoka]

Meh. Anything "Gox" to me is tainted.

[findftp]

Meh. Anything "Gox" to me is tainted.

Yeah, you're right.
Just like all the coins which went through Silk Road.

[tokeweed]

lol

[jc01480]

If Gox hadn't have failed we'd still be in the thousands!  All it takes is one bad apple to set us back several years and draw a bunch of unnecessary government (nanny) attention.  I hope justice is done when this Broke Back Mount Gox thing is adjudicated.

[bryant.coleman]

This is Mark Karpeles latest tweet:

plus ou moins, les choses se calment et on travaille sur le renouveau du service d'hébergement

Has this got anything to do with the new project?

[herzmeister]

My guess is that he's finally going to do something with that site he created in 2006: http://www.who.is/whois/coinconverter.com/

wondering which kind of audience would have wanted to convert which kind of coins in 2006 and how and why

[Marlo Stanfield]

My guess is that he's finally going to do something with that site he created in 2006: http://www.who.is/whois/coinconverter.com/

wondering which kind of audience would have wanted to convert which kind of coins in 2006 and how and why

That is actually kind of an odd coincidence.