This is one of the better insights I've read about cryptocurrency on vortex-l -- in part because it is so obvious that the Japanese mafia are the prime suspects; although they could be doing the dirty work of powerful allies in the US -- allies to whom a billion dollars are crumbs they leave behind. It wouldn't be the first the organized crime partnered with powerful "legitimate" interests.
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > *From:* James Bowery > > > > If Karpeles didn't notice something was going wrong when 50% of his > Bitcoin assets were gone -- which should by extrapolation been at least a > year ago -- then he wasn't the one running the show. I suspect foul play > by some outside agency that saw Karpeles as a central point of control in > the exchange market place and also as a soft target. > > > > Can you spell "Yakuza"? I can't, but my spell-checker helps J > > > > This scenario is now looking like it has organized crime written all over > it. The best hope for recovering anything is to sell the film rights. > > > > Along with built-in deflation, this is looking like a big drawback since > the bulls-eye is now on the exchanges - and that could be another systemic > weakness of the basic scheme. Something similar to this heist, if that is > what it is, could happen to any private exchange which has little access to > Police protection ... (meaning they will have to cooperate with the FBI and > IRS to get help, which is what their customers dread). > > > > Probably most of them will be targets of the mafia, of whatever country > they are located in - since the word-on-the-street of a successful > multimillion dollar heist spreads faster in the underworld than the STDs. > > > > It would not surprise me if Terry and Blaze are out there selling Bitcoins > short... as we speak. > > > > > > > > >
