Mark Karpeles Tweeting Strange Code

[BitCoinNutJob]

Anyone know what this is?

[freedomno1]

Anyone know what this is?

Hmm good question besides the fact its a code not sure what it could be perhaps a message to someone in particular.
The twitter page
https://twitter.com/MagicalTux

[dhenson]

Anyone know what this is?

That's the signature of a message.  It's proof that some text existed before the tweet.

Example of a message, address and signature (taken from brainwallet.org)

-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
This is an example of a signed message.
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
1HZwkjkeaoZfTSaJxDw6aKkxp45agDiEzN
G7d64LGE0m/1Dpgn7dQdQZ18O31D5B4h8htALkILIDmToPpgjHVyKA7dIfQX8cHJwp4AuhGJAuSw+wWfXuSUZ9c=
-----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----

[BitCoinNutJob]

twitter hacked seems most likely at this point

[bigasic]

Edit:

Looks like its been figured out.. hacking is probably the reason..

[freedomno1]

twitter hacked seems most likely at this point

Might go with that
Thinking about it dhenson might be onto it could be a digital signature to confirm he is the real owner of this account and there is a message there that someone can verify if they have the correct bitcoin address.
http://localbitcoins.blogspot.ca/2013/05/signing-documents-with-bitcoin.html

[ForgottenPassword]

Looks like they were deleted.

Does anyone have the text? It's too difficult to try and copy it from those images.

[Meuh6879]

Loan killer smash head (of karpeles) on keyboard.
Finaly.

[freedomno1]

Anyone know what this is?

That's the signature of a message.  It's proof that some text existed before the tweet.

Example of a message, address and signature (taken from brainwallet.org)

-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
This is an example of a signed message.
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
1HZwkjkeaoZfTSaJxDw6aKkxp45agDiEzN
G7d64LGE0m/1Dpgn7dQdQZ18O31D5B4h8htALkILIDmToPpgjHVyKA7dIfQX8cHJwp4AuhGJAuSw+wWfXuSUZ9c=
-----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----

Yep it looks like Karpeles tweeted a signed message to someone
Looks like the interested party recieved it so he removed the tweet
(We may know what it is later perhaps like 3 to 6 months from now lols)

[ForgottenPassword]

Yep it looks like Karpeles tweeted a signed message to someone
Looks like the interested party recieved it so he removed the tweet
(We may know what it is later perhaps like 3 to 6 months from now lols)

It could be anything really. It's not likely to be a signed message because you still need the message to verify it which he did not tweet.

I'd like to try and find out what it was though I can't find the original text and copying it from the screenshot is a bad idea as I can't tell if those are small L's or I's or 1's etc.

If someone can find the text of the tweets please post them here!

[dhenson]

Yep it looks like Karpeles tweeted a signed message to someone
Looks like the interested party recieved it so he removed the tweet
(We may know what it is later perhaps like 3 to 6 months from now lols)

Reasons I can think of to sign a message:

• Prove ownership/control of a bitcoin address.  This wouldn't have required that he publicize the signature. He could have simply sent the message, address and signature privately. For that reason, I do not believe that this was the likely purpose.
• Prove at a later date that a message was written prior to him posting the signature.  By posting the signature, he is providing a publicly verifiable proof that an as of yet unpublished message was created prior to a specific date/time.  At a later date, the message could be revealed along with the bitcoin address that was used to sign with.

edit...
The most likely explanation is that he enjoys being the center of attention and this is just nerd trolling.

[cryptopaths]

I can shine some light on this mystery.


This tweet was made very soon after I made this post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=739403.0

[franky1]

I can shine some light on this mystery.


This tweet was made very soon after I made this post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=739403.0

put your ego back into its box, it has nothing to do with you
you are not the sun and is forum is not the planet. no one beleives your fud about TBF and satoshi murder theory..
 sorry to burst your bubble

[hl5460]

AhvXyxUHl2D1hiwXKOKeuHRYEL1Nsmp9QYS08c0Emdub+A/G5rFstLg1THv+gzpNWTbqdKOyA8PrVCQ9KdBJLFs=




AkHf/St2Y68RiadVqkGhIyTE+og7xQctpJwi56WiHR68dXyG3Wi5NXvGLEsOSyT7aLHAHynhJLExWly9qYKLbKM=

Some said it's a message asking Kim to deliver the goods. Have fun!

[jjc326]

This moron already cost enough people their money. He should crawl under a rock and get off any social media. I'm actually surprised no one tried to physically harm him. If I had lost thousands I would be all over his case.

In short I agree he's just trying to be cool

[minerpumpkin]

If it is legit, I also just believe it is a signature in order to verify some text or message really originated from him/his account. Why not send it via DM though... Then again the other party would need to follow you...
Verification through private key signing on a centralized site? Oh the irony

[dadugan]

So, this guy is not in jail yet.

Is there any penalty going to be apply to him?

[jaberwock]

Anyone know what this is?

That's the signature of a message.  It's proof that some text existed before the tweet.

Example of a message, address and signature (taken from brainwallet.org)

-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
This is an example of a signed message.
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
1HZwkjkeaoZfTSaJxDw6aKkxp45agDiEzN
G7d64LGE0m/1Dpgn7dQdQZ18O31D5B4h8htALkILIDmToPpgjHVyKA7dIfQX8cHJwp4AuhGJAuSw+wWfXuSUZ9c=
-----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----

Yep it looks like Karpeles tweeted a signed message to someone
Looks like the interested party recieved it so he removed the tweet
(We may know what it is later perhaps like 3 to 6 months from now lols)

Why the hell would he use twitter for that? When he could use email/telegraph/fax/another account not linked to him/cell phone/etc?

Maybe he just bored and posted some nonsense, so people around the internet would waste time trying to guess what he posted?

[bitsmichel]

So, this guy is not in jail yet.

Is there any penalty going to be apply to him?

Last thing I saw, he is living in an expensive apartment in Japan. I do not think he will go to jail, probably he has some protection by the Japanese government - as clearly he should have a trial.

[spazzdla]

So, this guy is not in jail yet.

Is there any penalty going to be apply to him?

No one really knows what happend yet...  If someone came into a gold vault with a bunch of dudes and weapons and took all the gold would you arrest the guy that owned the vault...?

However.. if a guy came to the vault.. and you opened it and let him take everything.. well...