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Re: [Payout Updates] Bitcoinica site is taken offline for security investigation
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ninjarobot
on 03/07/2012, 23:55:54 UTC
> Who is truly in charge, and more importantly, what business entity has taken on the legal responsibility for the fiduciary responsibility of all of the many tens of thousands of dollars in value you hold in trust?

Based on government records, Bitcoinica Consultancy Ltd is the General Partner of Bitcoinica LP. AFAIK the owners of Bitcoinica Consultancy Ltd are Donald, Patrick and Amir (or possibly Bitcoin Consultancy Ltd). Tihan is a representative of an investment group, which is the Limited Partner. He is never in charge of the company after the corporate reorganization.

See, I'm not so sure about that. Take the following quote for example:

Now the thing is that for payments to be processed, we need legal authorisation from the person in charge. Tihan denies being in charge, which means his parent company (Core Credit) has to authorise the payments. However Tihan is saying we don't need that.

This seems to indicate that BICOINICA CONSULTANCY is the GP (Intersango guys) and CORE CREDIT the LP (Tihans fund)

However a few weeks after the hack, on May 30 this happened:

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New Company Name BITCOINICA CONSULTANCY LIMITED
Previous Company Name CORE CREDIT LIMITED
Effective Date30 May 2012 12:56:36

The original Bitcoinica Consultancy was withdrawn from government records and Core Credit became Bitcoinica Consultancy (See: http://goo.gl/Lch6E). So who is the GP now? Sure it is still Bitcoinica Consultancy but it appears that behind the curtain there has been a change of guard. Please correct me if I am wrong.

I asked Donald about this over skype 2 weeks ago but he could not answer the question due to the NDA he is under. And other Bitcoinica LP members have largely ignored the issue. e.g:

But it does not matter who is legally in charge right now as the way forwards is clear and everyone is in agreement about what needs to be done. We will make the payments, we now have consolidated all the records and the money.

So it would be good to get an official answer on the question LoupGaroux posed earlier: "Who is truly in charge, and more importantly, what business entity has taken on the legal responsibility for the fiduciary responsibility?"