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Mt. Gox's Mark Karpelès: I Was Suspected Of Being Dread Pirate Robertsbitcoinmagazine.com/business/former-mt-gox-ceo-mark-karpeles-reveals-details-of-2014-collapse-and-japanese-detention
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The most interesting part of this for me is that I found this article reading Hacker News's front pager. It won't stay there long, presumably, but still surprising. And this:

Transferred to Tokyo Detention Center, conditions worsened: over six months in solitary confinement on a floor shared with death row inmates. “It’s still quite painful to spend more than six months in solitary confinement,” he recalled.

If true, this is the most stoic and bad-ass thing I've ever heard, maybe. Six months in solitary would leave me an absolute unhinged lunatic. And he says quite painful. Wow.

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In late 2025, Mark Karpelès, ex CEO of Mt. Gox, lives a quieter life in Japan, building a VPN and an AI automation platform. As Chief Protocol Officer at vp.net—a VPN that uses Intel’s SGX technology to let users verify exactly what code runs on servers—he works alongside Roger Ver and Andrew Lee, the founder of Private Internet Access. “It’s the only VPN that you can trust basically. You don’t need to trust it, actually, you can verify”. At shells.com, his personal cloud computing platform, he’s quietly developing an unreleased AI agent system that hands artificial intelligence full control over a virtual machine: installing software, managing emails, and even handling purchases with a planned credit card integration. “What I’m doing with shells is giving AI a whole computer and free rein on the computer”, a brilliant idea, really. AI agents on steroids.

LOL what a garbage introduction and ass kissing a scammer(s). The whole article is a pathetic intent to give (again) attention to those scammers.

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I'm not particularly surprised about being investigated for anything and everything going on then. I guess a guy's gotta do something and maybe if, as he claims, the exchange was handed to him in a financially compromised state then he'll do better running services where no trust is required. Being in any marketing for such services I'd advise against.

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