Mark Karpeles Spent Over $50,000 on Kitchen Equipment For Bitcoin Cafe
Mt. Gox wasn't the only project headed by Mark Karpeles that ended up in limbo. He was also working on bringing a Bitcoin Cafe to the ground level of the building where Mt. Gox offices were located - a project he focused on until the very last days of Mt. Gox operations, according to the Wall Street Journal. The cafe was originally slated to open in 2013, featuring an impressive menu of coffee beverages, French quiches, one of which WSJ says was an apple quiche that took hours to make. So serious about the Cafe was Karpeles that he even took time off from working on his exchange (which was....
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