Topic: BTC-e & The Accountant & Crazy Eddie (Eddie Antar) & MtGox & stolen bitcoins (Read 130 times)

Vinnik (BTC-e) “obtained” funds from the hack of Mt. Gox and laundered them through BTC-e and Tradehill, another San Francisco-based exchange he owned according to an article on Reuters.  Stolen bitcoins from MtGox were sent to BTC-e thence to Tradehill thence the laundered bitcoins went back to MtGox.  Who stole the bitcoins hasn't been revealed or not yet determined.  The theft and laundering had been going on for years.

Reportedly Karpeles had bragged in an online chatroom that he could pump up or lower the value of bitcoin at will.  That circular movement of stolen bitcoins seem a perfect mechanism for effecting the price of bitcoin on MtGox.  I mean why would a thief put the laundered bitcoins back in the exchange from which they were stolen?  

Unless ... In the movie The Accountant staring Ben Affleck, his character describes how Crazy Eddie had pumped up the price of his electronics store stock by buying his own stock with money stolen from the stores.  When the stock was hugely overinflated he cashed out and fled to Israel.

So, around the time of Karpeles brag in a chatroom that he could change the price of Bitcoin at will, were there any suspicious transactions on MtGox from users of Tradehill leading to a change in Bitcoin price?  Would this be evidence of Karpeles stealing MtGox bitcoins?  Or only circumstantial?

Makes one wonder if Karpeles' met Crazy Eddie in Israel before moving to Japan, or had at least heard of how Crazy Eddie did it.

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