(2) Mark Karpeles was asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). He talked about this on Reddit. Who, or what does this NDA protect?
Mark has lied before, so, whatever he said or says (except in an official deposition, under penalty for perjury) should be ignored.
Ukyo of BitFunder also claimed to have signed an NDA at the demand of US authorities. That a convenient excuse to refuse to answer hard questions.
Now the trustee says he will "take necessary measures with respect to collection of receivables due from affiliated companies, etc." He apparently must be talking about two bankrupt/defunct entities, Tribanne and Bitcoin Cafe. If so, then why waste his time on collecting money from two broke companies?
Neither company was officially bankrupt. Bitcoin Cafe was non-functioning, but Tibanne still was functioning after a fashion. IIRC it was trying to sell the trademark "bitcoin" and/or the DNS name "bitcoin.com", that it acquired before MtGOX's collapse. Tibanne also claimed to be a creditor of MtGOX, since the staff was hired by Tibanne and provided by Tibanne to MtGOX; and Kobayashi had to authorize that payment.
But now Mark is refusing to repay the loans that he made to Tibanne and Bitcoin cafe (i.e., to himself). So Kobayashi has formally asked for Tibanne to be placed in involuntary bankruptcy. I understand that it is a necessary step to get an investigation of Tibanne's aaccounting, and perhaps getting Mark personally liable for the loan.
This month marks the first anniversary of the closure of Mt. Gox. When it closed down almost a year ago, we thought we knew (because they told us) that Mt. Gox had been hacked. Now we know even less than we thought we knew back then.
It was mark who claimed that the site had been hacked. We now know that there was some internal foul play. The police investigation is still udnerway, I believe.
Did the MtGOX victims warn the Court and Kobayashi about Jesse Powell's close involvement with Mark and MtGOX in 2011? On that occasion, Jesse Jesse got to see and fix the insides of the system...