Topic: Mt Gox CEO Mark Karpeles Implicated in Silk Road Trial - page 3. (Read 4607 times)

.... Wait , wait ... and if karpeles is satoshi   .  Guys  , we should wait an huge pump , very soon!

Wow...so nobody actually read the article?


The agent said that he had considered Mark Karpeles might be running Silk Road because it would be a good way to keep the Bitcoin price under control.


So, an agent has a theory a long time ago, backed up by his own opinion for a short amount of time.


The defense is trying to create reasonable doubt. That is like having a murder trial and asking "did you have any other suspects? Oh, you suspected the husband!?!...very interesting...."

I would personally doubt that any reasonable doubt comes from the allegation that Mark was DPR. I would personally say that it would be much more likely that he is found guilty and then evidence used against him is found to be inadmissible because of 4th amendment claims.

Didn't expect that kind of a twist. I wonder if Karpeles is also behind the collapse of the Euro and farting most of world's greenhouse gas emissions 

Good attempt by Ulbricht's lawyers, it might actually work out for their client.

Need. Popcorn. 

Some people might have known this, before the price "collapse" and dumped a lot of coins.

Things are picking up again, so it was not a big train smash or the "Doom" or "Death" of Bitcoin as was predicted by the Shills / Trolls / ButtF$%'ers 

I don't see how the news alone would. But him selling the coins might .

Maybe that was the "big news" that Adam guerbuez declared in one of his tweet (but I'm not sure). Will this news affect the price or not? What do you think ?

And that my friends is called "reasonable doubt"! Looks like Ross might have a shot after all!

And this could easily explain the Mt. Gox lost coins. They couldn't get to them because the government had seized them, or at least a good portion anyway.

I could see Karpeles following the same pattern as OJ.

OJ was never convicted for murder but his bad
karma led him to more bad decisions and robbing
a store, and ended up in jail just the same.

Karpeles never got caught for the Gox theft
(even if you believe it wasn't theft, it was
at minimum criminal negligence)... but maybe
gets skewered for Silk Road.

In any case, the harm he did to investors
is probably far greater than what DPR did
in running Silk Road -- actually I think DPR
probably helped reduce drug violence.

i think what we need is a true decentralized exchange all dealing with a decentralized, pegged bit.USD (or any fiat) implementation. something that the govt. would need to shut the internet down to stop its services.

save us cody wilson, amir taaki, peter todd.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2skgcr/i_was_at_the_ross_ulbricht_silk_road_trial_day_3/

This redditor claims to have been at the trial today and is answering questions.

Being licensed means that you, as company is supervised by a gov authority. You have to respect MANY aspects as being financial institution.

 You can have as many KYC rules you want. If you are NOT licensed as MSB, you  will be arrested sooner or later.

There XXXX examples of people who received jail sentence for Unlicensed Money Transmitters.

BUT being MSB, you cannot deal with anonymous systems/transactions like Bitcoin. This is the law.

Remember, Bitinstant owner, Bitcoin Foundation's member (Charlie Shrem ) was arrested and HE pleads guilty to operating unlicensed money transmitting business. He will be in jail for 2 years.

How is Coinbase, Kraken or Bitstamp different than Bitinstant? There are NOT so they are facing the same faith.

Wow this is some crazy news headline right here!

Just when you think you know every angle of the story, they hit you with the plot twist.

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/dhs-believed-mt-gox-ceo-might-silk-roads-secret-mastermind/

The moral of the story.  Never trust a French man, they're all coward shady dishonorable scumbags!

MagicalTux = Dread Pirate Roberts

Coinbase follows KYC rules of being a money transmitter whether it applies to them or not.  Bitinstant made the mistake of linking to silkroad.  You ask whats the difference?  Evidently alot which includes a court case and jail time.

Of course they are.  The information is public record so it should be easy to disprove
http://www.fincen.gov/financial_institutions/msb/msbstateselector.html

Good.  Hopefully they throw the books at him.  How he's a free man still investing up til now escapes me.

But just like OJ simpson, you can commit murder once and get away with it, but you'll eventually eff' up again and reap what you sew.

Because they are ALL outlaw. they are not MSB as it is required.

I mean, other "stupids" must be registered as MSB by paying bonds, taxes, audits, waiting for months to get the license and some "smart and great guys" like this "Tony", NOT.

According to the FINCEN:

" a person that creates units of convertible virtual currency and sells those units to another person for real currency or its equivalent is engaged in transmission to another location and is a money transmitter. In addition, a person is an exchanger and a money transmitter if the person accepts such de-centralized convertible virtual currency from one person and transmits it to another person as part of the acceptance and transfer of currency, funds, or other value that substitutes for currency."

It's just a matter of time until all the so called exchangers will be closed.

SilkRoad had thousands of happy customers too. Does it matter? They are behind the bars now.

Do you remember Bitinstant? Bitinstant owner (Charlie Shrem ) pleads guilty to operating unlicensed money transmitting business. Do you want more examples?

What is the difference between BitInstant and Coinbase, Bitpay, Kraken? NONE !

Interesting theory. Dred Pirate Roberts left some clues behind that defines his unique tastes:
1. He had a flair for articulate writing. Even posts regarding updates had a formal style. Whoever it was, they had attractive leadership qualities. He was a hero and never wrote anything slang or youthful. Just like a true CEO or what you'd expect a leader to write. He had grace during the most challenging times in the market's history.

2. Book club. DPR hosted a Solk Road book club and actively participated in it and recommended books to read. It was obvious this club was just to spread his views and generate hype over Libertarianism. His Favorite books were mostly related to politics, economy, Libertarians, history of Libertarian in Europe, etc.

3. He was certainly not young or American.
I recall some British style English. Although, he did write how he changes his writing style to foil writing style algorithms.

4. Crypto crazy. He was a master of encrypyion tools & Bitcoin. Always recommending tools and updates in posts. Signed with his PGP key always.

5. He was a bad coder. His posts regarding PHP code was often criticized by users who were more versed coders. However, he was an excellent writer, very technical on economics. Never did he mention anything about pop culture. Like he was older or isolated.

There's more.

Lotsa proof, he said. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/defense-in-silk-road-trial-says-mt-gox-ceo-was-the-real-dread-pirate-roberts