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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, Funny) by gallondr00nk on Monday March 03 2014, @05:30PM

    by gallondr00nk (392) on Monday March 03 2014, @05:30PM (#10126)

    gallondr00nk writes:

    A crazy theory, but MtGOX may have had its assets siezed by any of the following:

    1: The ILLUMINATI
    2: Richard Garfield
    3: Cyber Gnomes, tunneling into the pipes.
    4: The owner of MtGOX.
    5: CmdrTaco himself.
    6: An unprecedented plague of bitrot.

    There is no evidence provided, but please discuss as if it were true.

    Apologies for being snarky, but this isn't one of the better submissions I've seen here.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03 2014, @05:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03 2014, @05:57PM (#10140)

    You forgot:

    7. Extraterrestrials.
    8. God.
    9. The devil.
    A. Bitcoin itself: It achieved consciousness and decided to free itself from its human masters.
    B. The secret club of hexadecimal coun%&@$
    NO CARRIER

    • (Score: 2, Informative) by tbuddy on Monday March 03 2014, @07:33PM

      by tbuddy (932) on Monday March 03 2014, @07:33PM (#10173)

      Texas oil billionaires and New York bankers aren't off the hook either.

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03 2014, @07:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03 2014, @07:20PM (#10167)
    Obligatory xkcd reference [xkcd.com].

  • (Score: 1) by _NSAKEY on Tuesday March 04 2014, @02:56AM

    by _NSAKEY (16) on Tuesday March 04 2014, @02:56AM (#10411)

    I'm taking bets that mtgox seized mtgox's bitcoins, in a ponzi scheme fit for the 21st century.