DHS Agent Believed Mark Karpeles to Be Head of Silk Road
The number two spot for the most hated man in Bitcoin has changed a lot. Currently, it might just be Josh Garza as many PayCoin investors are not happy with the results of that investment. For a while it was Butterfly Labs CEO Sonny Vleisides, and for a while it was that NewsWeek reporter. But the number one spot has never been up for debate. It has been and may always be, former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles. Losing or stealing 300 million dollars worth of Bitcoin will do that to you. Now, we are finding out that he may have had his hands in more things than most people ever imagined. A....
Related News
Is Mark Karpeles the infamous Dread Pirate Roberts? The Ross Ulbricht trial currently ongoing in New York City has taken an unexpected turn. The defense, with the help of the undercover Silk Road agent working for the Department of Homeland Security, Der-Yeghiayan, has seemingly successfully presented the case that the culpable Dread Pirate Roberts behind Silk Road was not Ross Ulbricht but Mark Karpeles of Mt. Gox instead. Joshua Dratel, Ross Ulbricht's lawyer, told the court:
Mark Karpeles has denied claims he operated Silk Road Marketplace. The trial of alleged Silk Road ringleader Ross Ulbricht heated up today during the questioning of a US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agent by the defense team, led by Ulbricht's lawyer Joshua Dratel. The DHS witness, agent Jared DerYeghiayan, reportedly claimed that Mark Karpeles, former CEO of the embattled bitcoin exchange Mt Gox, was once suspected to be the online black market's mastermind, Dread Pirate Roberts. Reporters from the courtroom took to Twitter to address his claims; two suggested that the defense....
For the record, former head of fallen Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, Mark Karpeles has said he is not the Bitcoin underworld leader of the "Silk Road" website, who went by the alias Dread Pirate Roberts. Now, he has said many other things before that people simply don't believe, so take the following quotes under advisement. He's not exactly a beacon of credibility. "I'm not a pirate nor a fraudster," Karpeles told the Daily Beast. "Nor, for the record, am I the creator of Bitcoin, the elusive Satoshi Nakamoto." The publication interviewed Karpeles after he was mentioned prominently in the....
Variety Jones, believed by some to be the Silk Road architect and a mentor to Ross Ulbricht, claims a corrupt FBI agent has threatened him for not agreeing to help him access a bitcoin wallet worth $70 million, according to a report by digital journalist Joseph Cox in Motherboard. Jones says the agent wants him to move to Singapore where he will set up a safe house and told him immigration police are hunting him in Thailand where he lives. The agent had previously leaked Jones secret grand jury information and also tipped him ahead of the investigations into Carl Mark Force and Shaun....
This week saw the beginning of alleged Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht’s trial in a federal courthouse in Manhattan. Ulbricht’s counsel began the trial on an interesting note, arguing that Ulbricht indeed founded the site, but that he was not the Dread Pirate Roberts, the mysterious operator of the online free marketplace. In a cross-examination of DHS....