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A Theory - MtGox Was Mugged by Uncle Sam

posted by janrinok on Monday March 03 2014, @04:00PM   
from the tell-me-it-aint-so dept.

unitron writes:

"Via Twitter, Cmdr Taco passes this along

'A crazy theory, MtGox had its btc seized by us govt during Silk Road investigation, but gag order prevents disclosure'

The actual article, by Chris Pacia (who links to and credits PuffyHerb on Reddit for most of the thinking behind it), is here:

http://chrispacia.wordpress.com/2014/02/28/this-is -what-most-likely-happened-to-mtgox/"

[Ed's Note: The paragraph above is pretty much how it was received. I leave it up to the readers to draw their own conclusions on the plausibility or otherwise of this report and the linked article. It is, by its very nature, speculative but worthy of further discussion nonetheless.]

• MetaEd: MetaEd: (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03 2014, @04:08PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03 2014, @04:08PM (#10093)

  Ed's Note: The paragraph above is pretty much how it was received. I leave it up to the readers to draw their own conclusions on the plausibility or otherwise of this report and the linked article.

  Err... yes. That's what happens on discussion sites and why editorializing is best avoided.

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• Re:MetaEd: Re:MetaEd: (Score: 5, Insightful) by hubie on Monday March 03 2014, @04:50PM

  by hubie (1068) on Monday March 03 2014, @04:50PM (#10110) Journal

  I disagree with the editor's decision to put this up. I don't think it serves this site well to put up blogger's conspiracy rants just so the community here can decide whether they make sense or not. Is it because it has to do with bitcoin, or because it came from Cmdr Taco that it gets a free pass? Maybe the editors feel they can do an adequate job filtering the nut job conspiracies from the plausible ones, but I disagree because I think it will drive the signal to noise of this site down pretty quickly.

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  • Re:MetaEd: (Score: 2, Insightful) by xlefay on Monday March 03 2014, @04:52PM

    by xlefay (65) on Monday March 03 2014, @04:52PM (#10111) Journal

    If only I had mod points...

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  • Re:MetaEd: (Score: 4, Insightful) by Sir Garlon on Monday March 03 2014, @07:13PM

    by Sir Garlon (1264) on Monday March 03 2014, @07:13PM (#10163)

    Yeah, I concur with hubie. Not every article will interest every reader, but I think there need to be a certain amount of hard facts for a news piece, or a person of a recognized expertise (meaning, recognized outside of Soylent) for an opinion piece. I don't see the value in trying to have a good discussion about a bad article.

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  • Re:MetaEd: (Score: 3, Insightful) by Foobar Bazbot on Tuesday March 04 2014, @02:16AM

    by Foobar Bazbot (37) on Tuesday March 04 2014, @02:16AM (#10395) Journal

    Actually, if this had come from CmdrTaco, I'm not sure it shouldn't have run -- he's something of an internet celebrity, so stuff written by him is more newsworthy than it otherwise would be. But that would mean an article, blog post, etc. written by CmdrTaco, not a single twitter post by CmdrTaco linking to an article/blog from some random bloke.

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• Re:MetaEd: (Score: 2) by LaminatorX on Monday March 03 2014, @05:54PM

  by LaminatorX (14) <reversethis-{moc ... ta} {xrotanimal}> on Monday March 03 2014, @05:54PM (#10137)

  We're going to have a discussion about this on the Content forum.

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