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I wonder how many people want to find this guy for personal vendetta's. His life must be a living hell

jason_slack 9y ago
Violence solves nothing. He can't even access the bitoins yet to give them back, even if forcefully held at gunpoint or tortured.
- infecto 9y ago
  Just because it solves nothing does not mean anything. A woman just yesterday shotup the Youtube offices because her videos were demonetized. Yes, she probably had mental illness as well but I can only imagine how much more some people have against Mark Karpeles.
  - jason_slack 9y ago
    > Just because it solves nothing does not mean anything. I feel that it does mean something. While people may want Karpeles to pay for what happened implying violence is OK to "settle the score" is wrong. Those that cause the violence will then spend time incarcerated and they still wont get back their bitcoins or the value of their bitcoins. Correct me if I am wrong, but in the U.S prisoners can only earn so much money while incarcerated.
freehunter 9y ago
To me the lesson from all of this is, this is why financial regulations exist. Many nations have gone through this same thing with their own currencies, and the end result is something like the US FDIC, where properly regulated banks have their balances backed up by the federal government and if the bank goes out of business everyone gets their money back. Many people I know who are opposed to this kind of regulatory structure have invested in some way in BitCoin due to their lack of regulatory structure, and some of them have been burned by it. You can hate the guy for his mistakes, but ultimately this would have been far less likely to happen with a stable currency backed up by a stable regulatory body.
- XR0CSWV3h3kZWg 9y ago
  It's ironic because cryptocurrencies were made to eliminate third party risk. Another take away from mtgox was to keep your coins on your local, not on an exchange.

Violence solves nothing. He can't even access the bitoins yet to give them back, even if forcefully held at gunpoint or tortured.

infecto 9y ago
Just because it solves nothing does not mean anything. A woman just yesterday shotup the Youtube offices because her videos were demonetized. Yes, she probably had mental illness as well but I can only imagine how much more some people have against Mark Karpeles.
- jason_slack 9y ago
  > Just because it solves nothing does not mean anything. I feel that it does mean something. While people may want Karpeles to pay for what happened implying violence is OK to "settle the score" is wrong. Those that cause the violence will then spend time incarcerated and they still wont get back their bitcoins or the value of their bitcoins. Correct me if I am wrong, but in the U.S prisoners can only earn so much money while incarcerated.

freehunter 9y ago

To me the lesson from all of this is, this is why financial regulations exist. Many nations have gone through this same thing with their own currencies, and the end result is something like the US FDIC, where properly regulated banks have their balances backed up by the federal government and if the bank goes out of business everyone gets their money back. Many people I know who are opposed to this kind of regulatory structure have invested in some way in BitCoin due to their lack of regulatory structure, and some of them have been burned by it. You can hate the guy for his mistakes, but ultimately this would have been far less likely to happen with a stable currency backed up by a stable regulatory body.

XR0CSWV3h3kZWg 9y ago
It's ironic because cryptocurrencies were made to eliminate third party risk. Another take away from mtgox was to keep your coins on your local, not on an exchange.