FUD FUD FUD, you have no proof that uncle sam took the cold wallets.
No but many intelligent members of the community have researched and sleuthed this and read between the lines with every shed of information they have been able to get about MtGox as well as all the information and events
that happened in lead-up to this. Remember that MtGox and Bit-instant (Charlie Shrem - BTCKing) have been under investigation due to connections to SR. We do have a precedent for this as the US Gov seized the SR wallets and the wallets of other dealers after this. In their power trip they have also seized the entire collection of MtGox cold wallets as well as all the data. We will probably see further busts and arrests.
This is why Mark is under a gag order. If he let the word out it would tip off people that are currently under investigation.
The hope is that after the dust settles people that weren't dealing or buying drugs on SR and other black markets or involved in any other crimes will get their BTC back. However I suspect we won't get the bitcoin back without a fight.
Unfortunately some elements of the financial establishment want to become dominant players in future of cryptocurrency and want to package this together with tighter regulation. Regulation that favors the existing financial establishment and make it almost impossible for small players to enter the market.
Remember the banks and the drugs cartels have a vested interest in crushing threats to their financial dominance such as bitcoins and markets like SR.
However in the future drug cartels will use cryptocurrencies instead of mountains of cash.You could have stopped there. You have no idea of what you are speaking about. If the coins were seized we would know and no gag order in the world would stop us from finding out. The coins were stolen and mismanaged and that's all there is to it.
That kind of piss-poor reasoning makes you sound like a troll. Your statement is like this
"You don't know what you're talking about! Things happened the way I say because I say so. I don't need any evidence!!" That's pretty classical logical fallacy, troll-like behavior. Just the kind of talk you'd expect from a bankster/govt troll. Your posts actually prop up the theory you're trying to dismiss.
Actually, just because some super-sleuth reddit internet trolls have an idea does not mean it makes sense or has any validity.
you said"
This actually sounds pretty plausible, and the more I read the reddit post, the more convinced of it I'm becoming. I mean, who's better at stealing from people than the US government??
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The answer to your question is hackers and you will see when all the dust settles that the cold wallets have not been seized by the feds.
Furthermore, I'd like to know how "plausible" it is for the feds to slap a gag order on Mark, seize his coins, have the world hunting him, stalking him, his employees, outside his office, threats on the forum ect and Mark just stays quiet.. Not to mention going bankrupt, having the Manhattan DA investigating him ect ect ect ect ect.
I don't think he would go through all that. He would just spill the beans., It would have leaked if that was the case because in the end it would have been easy to prove if it had happened, which it did not.
The coins were stolen, and that's all there is to it.
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