Mt. Gox CEO Returns To Twitter, Enrages Burned Investors 281
An anonymous reader writes Mark Karpeles doesn't seem to understand how much anger and trouble the $400 million Mt. Gox fiasco caused his customers. According to Wired: "After a long absence, the Mt Gox CEO has returned to Twitter with a bizarre string of tone-deaf tweets that were either written by a Turing test chat bot, or by a man completely oblivious to the economic chaos he has wrought. His first message after losing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bitcoins? 'What would we do without busybox?'—a reference to a slimmed-down Linux operating system used on devices such as routers. He's also Tweeted about a noodle dish called yakisoba and Japanese transportation systems." Andreas Antonopoulos, the CSO with Blockchain says, "He continues to be oblivious about his own failure and the pain he has caused others. He is confirming that he is a self-absorbed narcissist with an inflated sense of self-confidence who has no remorse."
Busybox (Score:5, Informative)
It's not an operating system.
Re:Really? (Score:4, Informative)
"Give me your bitcoins, I'll hold onto them for you. They aren't regulated as a currency by the government (and you love that) also they are untraceable (you love that too), they are just data so if I lose them ... well I'll try not to lose them."
Who would have thought anybody with half a brain would actually fall for that, but they did, to the tune of like $400 million worth of the damn things!
Re:He didn't sacrifice a goat to the SJWs. (Score:5, Informative)
MTGOX
Magic The Gathering Online eXchange
He couldn't even be bothered to get a new domain name...
Re:He didn't sacrifice a goat to the SJWs. (Score:4, Informative)
I believe he bought it as a Bitcoin exchange and never actually ran it as a card exchange. There are rumors of a dodgy history in France before he moved to Japan also.
Re:He didn't sacrifice a goat to the SJWs. (Score:2, Informative)
Correct. The mtgox domain was registered by Jed McCaleb (who created eDonkey) to use as a trading card site in 2007. He reused the domain in when he created the bitcoin exchange. Then he sold the whole operation to Mark Karpeles, who is the person this article is about.