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What’s the TRUTH behind Mt Gox BTC Scam?
Post 9 of 10

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Mt Gox was not the scam/theft/hack/money laundering the public narrative is claiming?

…But instead was a controlled and monitored #BitcoinStingOp setup by NSA, DHS, and white hats to:
💥 secure Satoshi Nakamoto BTC fund for NETCOIN
💥 plant a public narrative around BTC, Mt Gox, Jed, and blockchain security in general in order to setup ISO20022 and Stellar to come swooping in fully backed by Space Force, Global Military Alliance, and quantum computers

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💥 BTC also has its own version of Stellar Horizon where Satoshi Nakamoto and white hats can view all the missing/hidden transactions that we can’t see and it also shows who controls all those “invalid wallets” 🤭 just like Detective can see Invalid (unfunded) Stellar wallets on ATOM 🎅

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💥 Mt Gox was actually a white hat beta test and setup for BTC to fork into Stellar 😎

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💥 Not just Jed, but also Karpeles, Vinnik, and Ulbricht had roles to play in all of this like actors in a badass movie and we find out some of them aren’t really in jail but just in witness protection since a standard Russian play is to “arrest” people as a cover story instead of “killing” them like in USA and Wadiya


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What’s the TRUTH behind Mt Gox BTC Scam?
Post 3 of 10

What is Locky?

Locky is BTC-stealing malware that embeds encrypted Trojan viruses in macro-coded spreadsheets designed to look like invoices.
Many of these extensions are named after gods of Norse and Egyptian mythology. When first released, the extension used for encrypted files was .Locky. Other versions utilized the .zepto, .odin, .shit, .thor, .aesir, and .zzzzz extensions for encrypted files. The current version, released in December 2016, utilizes the .osiris extension for encrypted files

Project ODIN?
THOR’s hammer?
ZZZZZ rabbit virus Apache 2.0 sleep code?
OSIRIS = pineal gland = all seeing eye
#coinkidinky

On June 22, 2016, Necurs released a new version of Locky with a new loader component, which includes several “detection-avoiding techniques”, such as detecting whether it is running within a virtual machine (think ETH EVM) or within a physical machine, and relocation of instruction code

So essentially this Locky BTC-stealing malware got a mega upgrade to now steal BTC from EVM-compatible devices (remember ETH PATHFINDER & SHANGHAI WITHDRAWAL upgrades are coming in March, *giggles* how timely 😋)
#coinkidinky

⚠️ I will come back to this on another thingy 😉

Jan 10 What’s the TRUTH behind Mt Gox BTC Scam?
Post 1 of 10

Let’s start with the high level overview:

Jan 2007: Jed McCaleb purchased the domain name mtgox.com, short for "Magic: The Gathering Online eXchange"
2009: he reused the domain name to advertise another game
Jul 18, 2010: Mt Gox launched its BTC exchange
Feb 2011: Jed sold Mt Gox and within 3 months mayhem ensued, leading it to become the largest BTC scam/hack/theft and BTC price crash of all time…

At it’s peak in early 2014, it handled over 70% of all Bitcoin transactions worldwide, then a few months later it abruptly ceased operations amid revelations of its involvement in the loss/theft of hundreds of thousands of bitcoins, then worth hundreds of millions of $USD. Mt Gox assets were seized, people arrested, some “missing” BTC were recovered but the large bulk of it remains “lost”. Case closed


So what happened? (Public timeline of events):

2011
❇️Feb: Jed sold the site to French developer Mark Karpeles
❇️Apr 1: a few weeks after the sale, an IP address for SilkRoadMarket.org, which was leased to Karpeles (from Dec 18, 2009- Apr 1, 2011) expired (we will come back to this later)
❇️Jun 13: Mt Gox reported some 25,000 BTC (US$400,000 at the time) was robbed from 478 accounts
❇️Jun 17: Mt Gox's user database was leaked for sale
❇️Jun 19: a stream of fraudulent trades caused BTC to crash to one cent ($0.01) on the Mt. Gox exchange, after a hacker allegedly used credentials from a Mt. Gox auditor's compromised computer to transfer a large number of bitcoins illegally to himself. He used Mt Gox’s software to sell them all, creating a massive "ask" order at any price. Within minutes the price corrected
❇️Oct: two dozen transactions appeared sending 2,609 BTC to “invalid wallets”. As no “private key” could ever be assigned to them, these bitcoins were effectively lost, exposing a weakness in the protocol. (Just like expired Stellar claimable balances are lost on the blockchain) (we will come back to this later)

2013:
❇️May 15: DHS issued a warrant to seize money from Mt Gox's US subsidiary's account with payment processor Dwolla. Between May and July DHS seized $5+ million
❇️Jun: Mt Gox suspended withdrawals
❇️Nov: Mt Gox had "effectively been frozen out of the US banking system because of its regulatory problems"
❇️Oct 1: Ross William Ulbricht of Silk Road Market arrested (see post #2)

2014:
❇️Feb 24: Mt Gox suspended all trading and its website went offline. A leaked alleged “internal crisis management” document claimed that the company was insolvent
‼️Mt Gox said it lost almost 750,000 BTC of its customers + around 100,000 of its own = 7% of all BTC worth around $473 million near the time of the filing (7, 347 😁)
❇️Mar 20: Mt Gox reported it found 200,000 BTC in an “old wallet” used prior to June 2011, so the total missing is currently at 650,000 BTC
❇️Apr 18: Karpelès was subpoenaed by the US Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network to DC to testify. In a court filing, Karpelès replied that he did not have a lawyer for this matter and therefore declined to appear 🐠🐟🐡

2015:
❇️Jul: Mark Karpeles arrested

🇺🇸Trumpybear comes in office🇺🇸

2017:
❇️The DOJ identified Alexander Vinnik, owner of the BTC-e bitcoin exchange, as an alleged key figure in the laundering of Mt Gox's stolen bitcoins. Vinnik is a Russian computer expert (we will come back to this later)
❇️Jul 25: Vinnik was arrested in Greece at the request of the US on suspicion of money laundering. Vinnik has denied the charges. Russia tried to extradite him TWICE

🇺🇸USMCA Act signed 2018🇺🇸

2019:
❇️Mar: Karpeles ACQUITTED of almost all Mt Gox charges

2020:
❇️Dec: Vinnik was ACQUITTED on involvement with the Locky ransomware charges, but was sentenced to five years in prison for money laundering (see posts #2&3)

2022:
❇️Aug 4: Vinnik was extradited from Greece to US to face charges of money laundering and operation of an unlicensed money service business in the US