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Comment by maxerickson | Hacker News Reader

Here's what is revealed in the article: At one point in time, a DHS agent had the belief that Karpeles was involved with the Silk Road.

That's it!

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There's a bit more information from Sarah Jeong, who has been covering this for Forbes:

"Amazing moment later today: in affadavit, DHS agent referred to @a_greenberg's interview of DPR and said it sounded like Mark Karpeles." [1]

"Investigation found that Mutum Sigilum, a Karpeles holding, had registered http://silkroadmarket.org #SilkRoadTrial" [2]

"Karpeles's attorneys met with Baltimore law enforcement, offering to give up the identity of DPR if Karpeles was not charged w crim charges" [3]

[1] https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/555844940841115648 [2] https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/555821164661321728 [3] https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/555821577485713412

That's the same information. That the DHS agent believed they had probable cause is not a stupendously high bar. They also apparently never actually arrested Karpeles in relation to Silk Road (so perhaps said agent backed off that belief...).

How did Karpeles know the identity of DPR?

It's quite possible he didn't know anything, and was just sending out some test balloons.

Possible, as anything can be a lie. But usually in these situations people are telling the truth, or what they believe to be the truth.

Because it was himself? And also getting immunity, that would be clever phrasing.

are immunity deals really that stupidly phrased? I'd guess the standard boilerplate would protect against that? Then again I remember this exact scenario in an episode of The Practice ... so maybe not :)

He could possibly know just from watching BTC flow through Gox.

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