This Wednesday, November 26 is the next "Creditors" meeting, and still, no addresses or transaction information is exposed. This is information that can be released to the public, but hasn't. Why?
If 650,00 to 850,000 Bitcoin were actually stolen or seized, more than 5% of the entire Bitcoin economy resides in the hands of a small group of thieves. And thieves they are, whether they are hackers, exchange employees, banksters or government/court officials.
While there is no replacement for individual responsibility; a peaceful society cannot exist if it allows a handful of people to withhold information that could lead to the discovery of a potential hijacking of world finance and politics.
Who is behind this apparent campaign of silence, and why? What if after this week's hearing in Tokyo, we are not left with any more information than we have today? In other words, the stonewall continues?
Apparently, Mark Karpeles himself has even signed on to this NDA, and can't talk about anything but the weather, his mother's apple pie recipe and driving around Japan in his car.
I invite you to review a list put together by freedombit last March 1, and ask yourself which of his six possibilities for what happened is most consistent with the stonewalling behaviour we have witnessed in the aftermath of Mt. Gox:
1) MtGox (or one of its employees) was fraudulent: they intentionally engaged in fractional reserve banking without disclosure to its customers or flat out stole fiat cash and/or Bitcoin.
2) MtGox (or employee) was negligent, and was a victim of theft: MtGox accidentally engaged in fractional reserve banking due to a bug or poor accounting without knowing (the Double Spend) and one or more people outside of MtGox took advantage of this. (This is the equivalent to someone leaving the door to their home open and a burglar, seeing this, walking in and taking goods from the home.)
3) MtGox (or an employee) was negligent, period: MtGox put 800,000 coins into cold storage and forgot the password, building burned down without backup, etc...
4) MtGox is victim of government intervention: It is possible that a government (likely US or Japan) has frozen Bitcoin and/or FIAT cash accounts. As the hot wallets are depleted due to concern of lost Bitcoins, the company is forced to declare bankruptcy. Gag order prevents MtGox executives from saying anything.
5) MtGox is a victim of theft: Someone or group of people have found a way to steal Bitcoin from MtGox, using a weakness in either MtGox's software.
6) Bitcoin has a weakness enabling people to steal from one another.
Original post:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/mtgox-seeking-truth-stolen-or-lost-its-an-important-distinction-494864
