One thing also:  In the chat, Mark K. says "things could not be better" ...I thought that was a bit disconnected, however, in light of the above, it seems maybe he is a captured piece, and therefore

what this means is that Gox was captured and then run by the you-know-whos, as they do.  So, they puppeted him.  In these terms, his statement that "everything could not be better" would not seem so incongruos with the facts: dude you're fucked, how the hell could things not be better?  So he is 98% a captured actor, imo.