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Comment by rasengan | Hacker News Reader

You don’t know a person until you see them in the toughest of situations.

Mark is a good man and a great developer who fought on the front lines and I’ve known for a long time.

I’m not comfortable blindly trusting a random person I meet at a conference with our users’ privacy. You really don’t know who is a current spook, or spy, or worse.

Lastly, to put this to bed in a way that only developers and those that understand could appreciate (like you), we severely limit the people who have infrastructure access as we practice defense in depth, and Mark isn’t one of them.

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>Mark is a good man

He stole more money from me than I make in a year. There's surely plenty of other people in this very thread who he also cost dearly because of his callous disregard for our money. He knew the whole time that MtGox was insolvent and he used my cash, everyone's cash, as a giant slush fund. He had no problem pocketing that cash and paying himself a comfy salary knowing full well that he had tons of customers who made the mistake of trusting him with their money and he already lost it. Not to mention trying to make off with the domain and data from his old employer and then after they revoked the domain transfer that Mark fraudulently made he tried to extort it out of them. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1227216-karpeles-eng...

>and a great developer

We know exactly what kind of developer Mark is. MtGox didn't even use any form of version control. We have leaked copies of Mark's handiwork and it's absolutely horrifying that someone with his lack of talent was managing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of money. https://github.com/mtgoxleaker/mtgoxphp/blob/90822722620407e...

We're talking about the guy whose legal defense was that he was just incompetent and not malicious. He quite literally just completely forgot about a cold wallet filled with what was at the time worth well over 100 million dollars. No reasonable person would ever conclude that Mark is "a great developer".

I'd be much more comfortable trusting some rando from Defcon than a serial con man that has done nothing but lie and defraud customers and employers for well over a decade. And he's woefully incompetent to boot. Hiring Mark Karpeles as CTO is nothing but bald faced nepotism.

Your CTO doesn't have "infrastructure access"? Am I the only one for who that strikes me as odd?

I get the feeling reading through all of his recent posts that he's willing to say anything that portrays PIA in a positive light, regardless of it's consistency with reality. I just cancelled my account because of all of his PR. Strong with that one, the rhetoric is.

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