Quote from: T.Stuart on March 11, 2014, 04:18:12 PM

Quote from: glendower on March 11, 2014, 04:12:57 PM

Quote from: ozzymax on March 10, 2014, 04:28:21 PM

or are you delusional "it's not Karpeles fault" how old are you kid?

Okay, so Karpeles is an idiot, but he didn't force people to give them their bitcoin / fiat. But you're going after the wrong man. Don't get hung up on vengeance against the gun dealer, go after the man that pulled the trigger.

This is not the same as what he did. What he did is to allow people to use his service and deposit Bitcoin and fiat while knowing that he did not have all his customer's funds (despite publicly saying that he did all the way until the end).

Now, I live in the UK, and in law here the accused has the presumption of innocence until proved otherwise.

Karpeles undoubtedly knew that MtGox was in trouble due to the malleability exploit, but it may have taken some time before they got to the bottom of it and realised exactly how big a problem it was. They may have been working on the premise that they would have sufficient reserves in fiat to bail themselves out.

The fact is, we just don't know. If Karpeles continued to trade whilst knowingly insolvent, then yes, he is guilty of that, and I am sure that he will have to face the courts to deal with that.

But, I maintain the real villain here is whoever defrauded MtGox in the first place.

glendower

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