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If this is true then nearly all of bitcoin's growth over the last 3 years can be directly attributable to Mark Karpeles, either in the form of outright price ma

If this is true then nearly all of bitcoin's growth over the last 3 years can be directly attributable to Mark Karpeles, either in the form of outright price manipulation, or the running of illegal goods marketplaces.

krapp 12y ago
It would be ironic if the gold standard for decentralized, anarcho-capitalist currencies turned out to be more centrally controlled than the USD....
- mculp 12y ago
  "Centrally controlled" is not the same thing as one guy who has a very large stake. Bitcoin, by definition, is not "centrally controlled." It doesn't matter how many coins any entity controls, there's nothing that it could do to actually break the system or remove the inherent value of bitcoin. The fact that there are thousands and thousands of miners and nodes around the world protecting the ledger (the blockchain) is what makes bitcoin so groundbreaking.
  - vegedor 12y ago
    >Bitcoin, by definition, is not "centrally controlled." Except if more than 50% mining capacity is held by a single entity, you know that.
  - krapp 12y ago
    Ok fine. If not 'controlled' then manipulated, perhaps.