Hollywood to Create Film About Mark Karpeles and Mt. Gox
Hollywood wants to do a movie about the infamous Mark Karpeles and the now-defunct Mt. Gox exchange. The Hollywood Reporter is saying that a script of the scandalous incident is finding its way around film circles. The Gox story recently told in Rolling Stone is being sold to the highest bidder in the Hollywood market by the Creative Artists Agency. The....
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The arrest of Mark Karpeles and the Mt. Gox incident has become a national scandal of Japan over the last few months. This week, the rights to the Rolling Stone's story on Karpeles, and his journey from being an odd geek to a bitcoin mogul whom later becomes responsible for the loss of about half a billion US dollars is in the process of being acquired by a Hollywood film maker and agency CAA (Cretive Artists Agency). The film on Karpeles and the closure of Mt. Gox could be the next big bitcoin related movie to be released in Hollywood, following the story on Silk Road, which its rights....
The story of the rise and fall of bitcoin exchange Mt Gox and its CEO Mark Karpeles could soon find its way to the silver screen. The Hollywood Reporter reports that a film version of David Kushner's recent Rolling Stone piece on Mark Karpeles and Mt Gox is being shopped around by Creative Artists Agency, one of Hollywood's biggest talent agencies known for representing a wide array of A-listers. If optioned, the story would be the second involving bitcoin to enter the Hollywood pipeline, following 2013 news that the saga of online black market Silk Road had been picked up by 20th Century....
Mark Karpeles: Purveyor of fine swords. For anyone following the Mt. Gox debacle in recent years, the person at the center - Mark Karpeles - represented by an oddball character perfect for some future Hollywood film called, "The Bitcoin Exchange," which highlights the sometimes Wall-Streetian, and oft naive, story of Bitcoin. Mark Karpeles, the long embattled and now-incarcerated CEO of Mt. Gox, was well-known for his appreciation of a fine double latte with caramel and extra whipped cream. He is better known for having lost millions worth of bitcoins through his exchange Mt. Gox. Many....
Mark Karpeles is back in the headlines with a recent interview with PC World. Beyond launching some new services and returning to Twitter over the last several months, Karpeles has otherwise been reticent about talking about Bitcoin to the press since such conversations invariably lead to the failed Mt. Gox. Karpeles gave IDG News Services, operator of PC World, an interview on the condition that litigation, police investigations, and Mt. Gox not be discussed except in broad terms. CCN has also previously interviewed Mark Karpeles about his new project, forever.net. Also read: Mark....
Japanese news reports that Mark Karpeles, the infamous CEO of Mt Gox, was released on bail yesterday. The video from News24 Japan says Karpeles was let out after being imprisoned for a year and he was released on a $100,000 bail. Mark Karpeles Posts Bail and Weighs a Lot Less. Mark Karpeles was arrested last year by Japanese authorities for being....