Quote from: McKinley on March 06, 2014, 09:23:58 PM

Quote from: Jeronimus on March 01, 2014, 12:48:46 AM

There was some irc chat long ago, where Karpeles sent around 424k BTC to a particular address as in to prove that the exchange holds enough funds.

The address was this here

424k proof transaction:
https://blockchain.info/tx/3a1b9e330d32fef1ee42f8e86420d2be978bbe0dc5862f17da9027cf9e11f8c4 424k 06/23/2011

Someone on another thread (Peter R's theory) claims also a 2011 transaction of 432K was done by MTGOX, Karpeles:
http://blockexplorer.com/tx/84f96975ea88d317676771a482c71f39ff53beda790c89c07ae82e427b4d090f

Quote

MagicalTux: Kireji: it's the mtgox funds, which I moved to a secure area until things are cleared

I clicked through one path which ended up on the same address as above already posted: 1P3S1grZYmcqYDuaEDVDYobJ5Fx85E9fE9 with 50K where very small BTC amounts are still put onto, but never taken away. If that were an MTGOX address, BTC would still be there. If you said - you forgot the keys - get convicted and after a certain amount of years miraculously find the key again - you're deadly rich and already served your penalty.

Source
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=497289.msg5545261#msg5545261
http://blockexplorer.com/address/1P3S1grZYmcqYDuaEDVDYobJ5Fx85E9fE9

I think when he got hacked he was pissed that there was 'nothing he could do' so he devised a plan to hack himself thinking everyone would adopt the same 'nothing we could do' attitude, however little did he know that if 'nothing could be done' then the whole btc system is no good. The coins must be found for the people who own them, but most of all for the people who want to see a btc future.