Does anybody here recognize this guy as a fellow Bitcoiner?

[Kiki112]

why don't we just gather 120BTC and pay someone to get him excuted?

[Phinnaeus Gage]

I'v located the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9H_x22QPTc

it's 13.6.2007

I already had the link that I place elsewhere on this forum, but guess I forgot to include in the OP of this particular thread.

[Kiki112]

I'v located the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9H_x22QPTc

it's 13.6.2007

I already had the link that I place elsewhere on this forum, but guess I forgot to include in the OP of this particular thread.

I guess that's because your brain is spinning too much, make it stop

[Luno]

the phone turned up empty.

Found a French article about his background. Apparently a wizz kid with great potential:

http://www.latribune.fr/technos-medias/20140226trib000817258/bitcoin-qui-est-le-frenchie-mark-karpeles-patron-de-mtgox-.html

Born in the suburbs of Dijon in 1985, in Paris in 2003 that the young autodidact began to make his weapons business - then it is 17 or 18 years , as a software developer.

Small as coding , passages in the video game developer Lynux Cyberjoueurs , distributor of computer products Fotovista (now Pixmania ) and in specialist downloading video games Nexway, allowed him to develop strong skills in security management network and control a wide variety of programming languages.

    "It was a true genius , he always walked around the PC arm, desk, in the tail of the restaurant ... " remembers Gilles Ridel , CEO of Nexway . " It showed in the 190 IQ ."

Confident in his abilities, Mark Karpelès began to dream of becoming their own boss . In 2009, is recognized as follows: the "geek made ​​in France " went to live in Japan, his beloved video games and electronics. He created his own company, Tibanne , specializing in web hosting and application development .

More Google translate:

http://www.20minutes.fr/high-tech/1309930-20140227-mtgox-mark-karpeles-entrepreneur-francais-coeur-scandale-bitcoin

His name often written without the accent, not suggests, but Mark Karpeles is French. He was born in Chenôve, in the suburbs of Dijon in 1985. Tray in hand, he plies his first as a network administrator for video game site. After a break in Israel, he returned to France and worked for four years at Nexway (formerly Telechargement.fr), a pioneer of e-commerce specialist in the distribution of digital content.

At 21, he impressed the CEO of the company. "It was a computer genius, autodidact," says Gilles Ridel 20 Minutes. "He had the tank but was quickly paid as if out of a great school," he remembers. According to him, Karpeles was a "supergeek with an IQ of 190 who ate and slept with his laptop."

[Phinnaeus Gage]

the phone turned up empty.

Found a French article about his background. Apparently a wizz kid with great potential:

http://www.latribune.fr/technos-medias/20140226trib000817258/bitcoin-qui-est-le-frenchie-mark-karpeles-patron-de-mtgox-.html

Born in the suburbs of Dijon in 1985, in Paris in 2003 that the young autodidact began to make his weapons business - then it is 17 or 18 years , as a software developer.

Small as coding , passages in the video game developer Lynux Cyberjoueurs , distributor of computer products Fotovista (now Pixmania ) and in specialist downloading video games Nexway, allowed him to develop strong skills in security management network and control a wide variety of programming languages.

    "It was a true genius , he always walked around the PC arm, desk, in the tail of the restaurant ... " remembers Gilles Ridel , CEO of Nexway . " It showed in the 190 IQ ."

Confident in his abilities, Mark Karpelès began to dream of becoming their own boss . In 2009, is recognized as follows: the "geek made ​​in France " went to live in Japan, his beloved video games and electronics. He created his own company, Tibanne , specializing in web hosting and application development .

More Google translate:

http://www.20minutes.fr/high-tech/1309930-20140227-mtgox-mark-karpeles-entrepreneur-francais-coeur-scandale-bitcoin

His name often written without the accent, not suggests, but Mark Karpeles is French. He was born in Chenôve, in the suburbs of Dijon in 1985. Tray in hand, he plies his first as a network administrator for video game site. After a break in Israel, he returned to France and worked for four years at Nexway (formerly Telechargement.fr), a pioneer of e-commerce specialist in the distribution of digital content.

At 21, he impressed the CEO of the company. "It was a computer genius, autodidact," says Gilles Ridel 20 Minutes. "He had the tank but was quickly paid as if out of a great school," he remembers. According to him, Karpeles was a "supergeek with an IQ of 190 who ate and slept with his laptop."

Ergo, Mark Karpeles knew exactly what he was doing at Mt Gox, and none of this "I don't know how all those bitcoins disappeared." It ain't much of a stretch to claim that all the hacks at Mt Gox were initiated by him.

[Luno]

You are right Phineas, He knew exactly what he was/is doing.

[Luno]

Found his mom in Dijon Bourgogne, then this turned up: http://bitkoins.com/discussion/104453/karpeles-info-find-now-time-to-get-revange/p1

Someone is death serious We knew that he must have crossed that kind of people too. Scary, he can't be planning on going anywhere else than into protective custody.


He was a lonely child btw.

[Chang Hum]

I think for Mark to have lost 99.6% of his customers bitcoin deposits the Yakuza have already done this piece of detective work.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

You are right Phineas, He knew exactly what he was/is doing.

Further proof that the piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing even knowing how to read accounting ledgers.

Hello Everyone
I created mtgox on a lark after reading about bitcoins last summer. It has been interesting and fun to do. I’m still very confident that bitcoins have a bright future. But to really make mtgox what it has the potential to be would require more time than I have right now. So I’ve decided to pass the torch to someone better able to take the site to the next level.
MagicalTux has already contributed a lot to the bitcoin community and in many ways he will be better at running the site than I was. He has much more experience with web programming, system administration and integrating with banks and other payment processors than I do.

Everything will still work the same as always for the time being. But expect a lot of positive changes after he takes over including:
Automatic (and free) funding from Euro accounts.
Automatic ACH deposit and withdrawal.
Margin trading.
Interface redesign.
Lifting the $1000 a day withdrawal limit.

Thanks to everyone that has supported mtgox so far. Can’t wait to see BTC hit $10!

I can still be reached on the forum as "jed" or through fivegrinder.com

I'm sure that anybody able to integrate with banks knows a debit when he sees it. A motherfucker with a 190 IQ can't simply say that he had no idea where 700K+ BTC went.

Somebody order more fans, because this Mt Gox fiasco stinks to high heaven. Even Jehovah and Buddha are holding each other's noses 'cause the stench is so bad.

[MrPiggles]

never knew that idiot was french

[Luno]

I think for Mark to have lost 99.6% of his customers bitcoin deposits the Yakuza have already done this piece of detective work.

Do you have any idea if the Yakusa was using Gox? They are kind of integrated into Japanese banking, so they haven't much use for Bitcoin to launder anything?

[Phinnaeus Gage]

I think for Mark to have lost 99.6% of his customers bitcoin deposits the Yakuza have already done this piece of detective work.

At least the Yakuza make handsome looking chairs with large armrests.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

I think for Mark to have lost 99.6% of his customers bitcoin deposits the Yakuza have already done this piece of detective work.

Do you have any idea if the Yakusa was using Gox? They are kind of integrated into Japanese banking, so they haven't much use for Bitcoin to launder anything?

All it takes is just ONE Yakusa to have an account... I mean no longer have an account on Mt Gox to have the furniture makers custom design Mark's chair... with the handsome large armrest.

[Luno]

I think for Mark to have lost 99.6% of his customers bitcoin deposits the Yakuza have already done this piece of detective work.

At least the Yakuza make handsome looking chairs with large armrests.

Funny, that looks exactly like the Hentai fuck machine i've ordered the other day.

[Chang Hum]

I think for Mark to have lost 99.6% of his customers bitcoin deposits the Yakuza have already done this piece of detective work.

Do you have any idea if the Yakusa was using Gox? They are kind of integrated into Japanese banking, so they haven't much use for Bitcoin to launder anything?

Sorry the point I was getting at is if 1/2 billion usd was in cold storage at Gox's virtual office building it's hardly fort knox for someone with bad intentions that's capable of chopping his entire family pieces...."security issues"...99.6%!!!...he's going to prison and will never be able to touch that money he didn't have much of an incentive to steel it himself unless someone gave him a big incentive.

[Lauda]

This is the person which you trusted your money with.

[Luno]

If the Yakusa feel entitled to some money, they'll just get to the next in line. Anyone else involved with Mark still in Japan? Oh yes..

[Phinnaeus Gage]

This is the person which you trusted your money with.

It's worst than that, for remember the main Mt Gox was just one of many exchanges owned by Mark Karpeles. There were several in different countries using different banks.

Hi All,

I'm just wondering how Mt.Gox (and other brokerage sites) actually work? Do they have actual branches of their banks or is it like a separate company that holds a bank account and sets up a database of users to transfer funds to separately? I know Mt Gox's bank is in Japan but is the company also hosted there. Just very confused with regard to security and how they're set up to make all this happen without any pressure from banks or governments. So how does something like Mt Gox actually get set up? Still researching a ton about BTC in general and have a lot of questions but this one was kind of nagging me.

Actually, MtGox is more than just Japan.

Our head office is located in Tokyo (in Shibuya), and we have branches all around the world. For example for European deposits, we have a bank account in Poland held by MtGox Poland.

We comply as much as possible with local regulations in countries where we are present, and always look for opportunities to make our activity more compliant. In Japan we discussed with the FSA ( http://www.fsa.go.jp/ ) and were told that our activity is fine as it is now. We are also working with authorities in Europe and US to ensure our activity is in line with local regulations.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

mtgoxUSD
mtgoxEUR
mtgoxJPY
mtgoxGBP
mtgoxAUD
mtgoxPLN
mtgoxCAD
mtgoxCHF
mtgoxSEK
mtgoxNZD
mtgoxCNY
mtgoxSGD
mtgoxHKD
mtgoxDKK
mtgoxTHB
mtgoxRUB

That's 16 different exchanges in 16 different countries, none of which were linked to one another, and all having separate incorporation papers in their respective countries. Mt Gox (USD) just happened to be the largest one that we're all familiar with, but they all went dark at the same time.

Now, you tell me how can one going down affect the other 15 unless...

Take a look here if you don't believe me: http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/

Josh, more fans please! The shit is piling up and needs to be circulated.

[Luno]

Another thing. Mark has been described as socially reserved in dealing with the protesters, etc.
On the other hand, starting numerous businesses since his teens and from videos around the web, he seems quite capable with a lot of social- and public attention. Also he seems like being a high bandwith type intellect.

The shy teen hacker image is not how he sees himself.

To summarize facts

1. from ex employees, no one dealt with the cold wallets, except Mark, who claims that he didn't check their contents for years.

2. Customers checking their old depositor wallet addresses claim that their money are still there, suggesting an amount that's several orders of magnitude larger than the 2000BTC officially stated as all Bitcoin assets awailable to Mark or Gox (which is the same thing as he was the sole manager of them).

3. Being who he is, with an almost Mensa IQ of 190, it's hard to believe that these wallets are not under his control still. Meaning that he has memorized the keys on some of them, even if he claims otherwise.

4. In time we will have complete graphics on all BTC movements in and out of GOX (thank god for Bitcoin) and anything missing will be hiding in plain sight for all to see.

As everybody now knows, tumblers doesn’t work in reality. You can't mix Bitcoins to less that Satoshis, and there is software available to track every single one of them ever mined.

So eventually we will all know where the money are and who to ask politely for the keys. Don't worry, his scam is impossible unless the FBI and who else buys the "coins stolen" and "I'm to stupid to run an exchange" story.

Funny thing is, that if he laundered some of the Bitcoins to fiat already (Oh the irony), then that will be revealed too, and possible ex partners will have to come up with their book keeping also, not to get dragged into this.