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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.]

• Re:Three degrees from a rumor Re:Three degrees from a rumor (Score: 5, Insightful) by kebes on Monday March 03 2014, @05:14PM

  by kebes (1505) on Monday March 03 2014, @05:14PM (#10118)

  I agree. I'm generally very happy with how the SN team are running things (keep up the awesome work!). But there's room for improvement.
  
  Posts such as these are possibly a symptom of the desire to have "a post on topic X", in which case any recent news/blog/twitter item (no matter trite) is used as a summary; mostly to give a focal point to a discussion on topic X. I feel like Slashdot would very frequently do this: post strings of terrible articles on topics that would generate tons of comments. (Cynically, you could say they were fanning flame-wars for ad impressions; or you could optimistically say they were trying to give a space for topics that the community (sorry: audience) cared about.)
  
  I actually think posts that amount to "it's been awhile since we talked about X; let's start a new thread" can be good. But if that's what's going on, then the editors should be straightforward, with a post along the lines of "What's going on with X? Here are some links to recent developments and stories (some well-researched, some highly speculative). Discuss!"
  
  (It's of course possible I've entirely misinterpreted the editor's intent. But I believe my central point remains...)

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• Re:Three degrees from a rumor (Score: 1) by neagix on Monday March 03 2014, @07:51PM

  by neagix (25) on Monday March 03 2014, @07:51PM (#10189)

  mod this up, Scotty!

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