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338 sats \ 4 replies \ @Scoresby 3h \ on: Mt.Gox Collapse (850,000 Bitcoins Lost) - FULL STORY bitcoin

Enjoyed this write up! Excellent work! You probably are aware, but Karpeles has been posting some Gox trivia (is that even the right word for it?) on X lately:

Here's a picture of the Gox offices in 2012

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He also says he gave Gox employees 25BTC Casascius coins as bonses. source

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145 sats \ 0 replies \ @raw_avocado OP 2h

Oh yeah, absolutely, one reason for the write up was because he kept popin' in my feed, and kept reminding me.

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1 sat \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 3h

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133 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 1h

I was (naively) of the same opinion at the time and again during the 2014 collapse.

While I was buying and trading MtGoxBTC for (many) pennies on the dollar on BitcoinBuilder, I learned some weeks later that Tux had quickly reached a point where he mentally checked out from it all -- sitting in his hammock, knitting something for his cat, and doing little more than nodding in response to questions from bitcoin exchange industry veterans who flew to Japan to try to assist.

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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @raw_avocado OP 2h

Haha! In all fairness this was 2013, one year an a bit before the incident :P

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