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A Theory - MtGox Was Mugged by Uncle Sam

posted by janrinok on Monday March 03 2014, @04:00PM   Printer-friendly
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.]

 
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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by VLM on Monday March 03 2014, @04:13PM

    by VLM (445) on Monday March 03 2014, @04:13PM (#10095)

    We no longer have a rule of law society / culture / economy / government so that has two implications:

    1) Anything is possible

    2) People wisely expect anything is possible (conspiracy theory, etc). In a less corrupt culture, conspiracy would be less likely and therefore not widely believed.

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  • (Score: 1) by ikanreed on Monday March 03 2014, @04:43PM

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 03 2014, @04:43PM (#10108) Journal

    Anything possible apparently means always blame the big targets.

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Bill, Shooter Of Bul on Monday March 03 2014, @07:31PM

    by Bill, Shooter Of Bul (3170) on Monday March 03 2014, @07:31PM (#10172)

    Well, actually we still do have a rule of law society in the US. If we don't now, then lets face it: we never have. There is nothing you can point to that's really any worse than anything we've done in the past. Maybe you can point to a five year period some point in the late 19th early 20th where we weren't, but for the most part, its always been like this.

    Perhaps that's why, in the real world, conspiracies are *still* not widely believed. Thank goodness. Well, except for theories about global warming and other environmental catastrophes being hoaxes by liberals.