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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, Insightful) by egcagrac0 on Monday March 03 2014, @05:51PM

    by egcagrac0 (2705) on Monday March 03 2014, @05:51PM (#10135)

    I expect this site will be great because of the interesting discussions, not because of the linked articles.

    This has the possibility of stimulating interesting discussion.

    At the very least, kudos to the editors for clearly stating that the linked article is speculative rather than factual.

    I, for one, am OK with SN being people (and our interesting discussions), rather than stale news.

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