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Re:Skyrocketing Bitcoin Fees Hit Carders in Wallet by vesak on Friday December 29, 2017 @04:07AM (#16028504)
>he founded and sold MtGox

Are you serious? Sold MtGox? That's how you remember him? He was steering that particular ship when it hit an iceberg.

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Re:Skyrocketing Bitcoin Fees Hit Carders in Wallet by waytogo on Friday December 29, 2017 @12:10PM (#16030458)
IDK if Jed hit the iceberg, from Wikipedia:

McCaleb sold the site to French developer Mark Karpelès, who was living in Japan, in March 2011.

On 19 June 2011, a security breach of the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange caused the nominal price of a bitcoin to fraudulently drop to one cent on the Mt. Gox exchange, after a hacker allegedly used credentials from a Mt. Gox auditor's compromised computer to transfer a large number of bitcoins illegally to himself.

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