What do we know about Gonzague Gay-Bouchery (of Mt Gox)?

[Phinnaeus Gage]

BLOGROLL

Benoa Blog
Tokyo Street View

[sobriket]

BLOGROLL

Benoa Blog
Tokyo Street View

Blogroll !blog ownership. They're fellow Frenchmen in a foreign city.

[Bit_Happy]

How are they not in jail yet?

[Phinnaeus Gage]

BLOGROLL

Benoa Blog
Tokyo Street View

Blogroll !blog ownership. They're fellow Frenchmen in a foreign city.

This one is definitely his: http://www.tokyostreetview.com/blog/

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Do they really look like criminals?

Your call!

[sobriket]

BLOGROLL

Benoa Blog
Tokyo Street View

Blogroll !blog ownership. They're fellow Frenchmen in a foreign city.

This one is definitely his: http://www.tokyostreetview.com/blog/

Indeed

[Phinnaeus Gage]

BLOGROLL

Benoa Blog
Tokyo Street View

Blogroll !blog ownership. They're fellow Frenchmen in a foreign city.

This one is definitely his: http://www.tokyostreetview.com/blog/

Indeed

As for the other, perhaps you brainiacs can glean something from the below, for it's basically beyond me.

http://web.archive.org/web/20040618063621/http://benoa.net/benoa.html

Publications
GSM, GPRS and EDGE Performance: This second Edition provides a complete overview of the entire GSM system. GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) is the digital transmission technique widely adopted in Europe and supported in North America. It features comprehensive descriptions of GSM’s main evolutionary milestones - GPRS, (General Packet Radio Services) is a packet-based wireless communication service that promises data rates from 56 up to 114 Kbps and continuous connection to the Internet for mobile phone and computer users. AMR and EDGE (Enhanced Data GSM Environment), and such developments have now positioned GERAN (GSM/EDGE Radio Access Network) as a full 3G radio standard. The radio network performance and capabilities of GSM, GPRS, AMR and EDGE solutions are studied in-depth by using revealing simulations and field trials.
John Wiley & Sons - ISBN 0470866942

ARQ Considerations for the new GSM/EDGE Flexible Layer One
11th IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON 2003)
2003 September 28 - October 1 in Sydney (Australia)
Introducing the GERAN Flexible Layer One Concept

IEEE Wireless Communications - QoS in Next-generation Wireless Multimedia Communications Systems
2003 June Vol.10 No.3

IP Multimedia Services Improvements in the GSM/EDGE Radio Access Network
57th IEEE Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2003 Spring)
2003 April 22 - 25 in Jeju (Korea)

Flexible Layer One for the GSM/EDGE Radio Access Network (GERAN)
10th IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT2003)
2003 February 23 - March 1 in Tahiti (French Polynesia)

Advances in 3G Enhanced Technologies for Wireless Communications: Broadband wireless communications is profoundly impacting our daily lives, and energizing numerous research projects globally. A compilation of the cutting edge work of leading researchers and engineers from major telecommunications firms worldwide, this timely volume offers you in-depth knowledge of the various technical regimes for implementing third generation (3G) wireless mobile communications systems, and covers the latest enhanced techniques likely to become future standards in 3.5G or 3GPP2. Indispensable for practicing professionals and students, this volume helps you fully understand the concepts behind third generation standards and identify key directions in which research is needed. The book includes chapters on 3G wideband CDMA enhanced technologies, CDMA 2000 high speed packet transmission, EDGE, software radio, and the wireless internet.
Artech House - ISBN 1580533027

Speech Capacity Enhancements in the GSM/EDGE Radio Access Network
9th IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT2002)
2002 June 23 - 26 in Beijing (China)

GERAN - Evolution of GSM/EDGE towards 3G Mobile Services
8th IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT2001)
2001 June 4 - 7 in Bucharest (Romania)

Honestly, this is all I know of IEEE without having to go to Wikipedia to get back up to speed:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/networks/bitcoin-gives-an-edge-to-amazon-competitors

http://www.coindesk.com/entrepreneur-roger-ver-1m-bitcoin-donation/

[sobriket]

Phinnaeus, IEEE and what you posted there has nothing to do with this case.

Back on topic, Gonzague now made his instagram account private.

[macjp]

Mark was Alexandre first company's server master for a few years. And this is the company who got mark visa for Japan.
After they "used" all the money from this first company they just left to create Tibanne and MtGox.

Mark is/was just a intelligent geek and Alexandre the "brain". But at the end they just failed as Alexandre did with his first company, but in a much bigger scale !

If you are looking for your bitcoin, you should also look at Alexandre action!

[TheFootMan]

From his Instagram, which is now not available (as predicted).

Please someone make some mem of the image above.

[janos666]

(as predicted).

Did someone predict he will end up at the bottom of a barrel, screaming...?

[TheFootMan]

Well, I remember distinctly he said in an interview to a major news outlet the 10th of Feb 2014 that all customer funds where safe and accounted for. Sorry, don't have the source here - but it was a major news outlet that he spoke directly with.

So that leaves us with basically 3 options.

1. He was blissfully unaware of how the financial situation was, and just assumed everything was okay, which in the best case would make him irresponsible, naive and negligent. Telling customers all was okay in this scenario would at best be irresponsible, as he did not know for sure. And saying something without being sure is very close to lies or lies imo.

2. He was aware there was problems, but unaware about how serious the problems really were. That would point to him not taking his job seriously, which again would put him in a position of irresponsibility and negligence when he states to customers that everything is ok.

3. He was fully aware of the gravity of the situation, and lied in the interview - which would just be business as usual for him, as that's his standard operating mode.

I cannot imagine anyone having such a position at a company for several years without being 'in the know'. I find that highly unlikely.

So, my conclusion is that everything points to him being involved and 'in the know'.

- If he did not know about the real situation in the company and told customers that all funds were safe, it would be a lie because he did not have hard facts to back it up.

- If he knew that everything was fucked up and told customers all funds were safe, he would be a liar.

So no matter which way you twist it, he's a liar.

[T.Stuart]

From his Instagram, which is now not available (as predicted).

Please someone make some mem of the image above.

Mark Karpeles tries out his new frappucino straw, paid for in customer funds.

[sobriket]

Well, I remember distinctly he said in an interview to a major news outlet the 10th of Feb 2014 that all customer funds where safe and accounted for. Sorry, don't have the source here - but it was a major news outlet that he spoke directly with.

So that leaves us with basically 3 options.

1. He was blissfully unaware of how the financial situation was, and just assumed everything was okay, which in the best case would make him irresponsible, naive and negligent. Telling customers all was okay in this scenario would at best be irresponsible, as he did not know for sure. And saying something without being sure is very close to lies or lies imo.

2. He was aware there was problems, but unaware about how serious the problems really were. That would point to him not taking his job seriously, which again would put him in a position of irresponsibility and negligence when he states to customers that everything is ok.

3. He was fully aware of the gravity of the situation, and lied in the interview - which would just be business as usual for him, as that's his standard operating mode.

I cannot imagine anyone having such a position at a company for several years without being 'in the know'. I find that highly unlikely.

So, my conclusion is that everything points to him being involved and 'in the know'.

- If he did not know about the real situation in the company and told customers that all funds were safe, it would be a lie because he did not have hard facts to back it up.

- If he knew that everything was fucked up and told customers all funds were safe, he would be a liar.

So no matter which way you twist it, he's a liar.

you really need to find this interview, I don't remember any such thing taking place

[TheFootMan]

you really need to find this interview, I don't remember any such thing taking place

OK. If you so wish.

Source:
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/cryptocurrency-news-round-protests-mt-gox-dogecoin-hits-095641328.html#QZGI2pd

Monday February 10th 2014, reporting from Coinsearchers visit to MtGox HQ lasting from the 5th to 8th of feb:

After waiting for several hours, CoinSearcher was greeted by Gonzague Gay-Bouchery, Mt Gox's manager of business development, who said the exchange was trying to fix the technical issues and did not have a liquidity problem - he added that users' coins were safe, with many held in 'cold storage' on computer not connected to the internet.

Then about 14 days later, MtGox went down and stopped trading.

[tvbcof]

Thoughts from a recent post.  One of the factors I used in deciding how much business to do with Mt. Gox was this:  I considered it almost suicidal to steal that much money from entities in the Bitcoin community who actually had that much money to steal.  Only a moron would do this.  Or...

A smart person might figure that perhaps he could steal the money but use some sort of a fall-guy to take the brunt of the fallout.  In this way, the risk/reward ratio might work out.

What one would need would be a fairly detached doofus type individual who got off on being called 'CEO' and that sort of thing.  By all indications Karpeles seems to be just such a guy.  One would stay in the shadows as much as possible, and this seems to match Gay-Bouchery's disposition.  Stories over the years do indicate that the guy was a big factor in actually running the show.

I think that something along these lines is a worthwhile hypothesis to explore.

[nahtnam]

Is there anything that links him with Mt.Gox's stolen bitcoins and the background activity?

[TheFootMan]

Is there anything that links him with Mt.Gox's stolen bitcoins and the background activity?

He worked for the company and had physical access to the offices. If Mark did not trust him with access to various resources, it could be easy to install key-loggers and stealth surveillance gear to get the information he was looking for.

[nahtnam]

Is there anything that links him with Mt.Gox's stolen bitcoins and the background activity?

He worked for the company and had physical access to the offices. If Mark did not trust him with access to various resources, it could be easy to install key-loggers and stealth surveillance gear to get the information he was looking for.

So you are claiming that he stole the bitcoins?

Can't they atleast find out which address has the btc?

[TheFootMan]

Is there anything that links him with Mt.Gox's stolen bitcoins and the background activity?

He worked for the company and had physical access to the offices. If Mark did not trust him with access to various resources, it could be easy to install key-loggers and stealth surveillance gear to get the information he was looking for.

So you are claiming that he stole the bitcoins?

Can't they atleast find out which address has the btc?

No, I'm not claiming that Gay took the bitcoins. Most likely it is Mark, but it could be someone using Mark as a scapegoat as well.

Truth is nobody knows the full story except for those involved. But since 200K BTC was recovered, people should at least get something back.

In all honesty we don't know very much apart from the fact that something is going on and there's some investigations, but what will come out of it - nobody knows.