Former Mt. Gox CEO Is No Longer a Bitcoin Believer
- In Reddit chat with users, Karpeles talked about jail, fraud
- He said he wants to reimburse users from any funds he gets
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The former chief executive officer of the once-largest Bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, said he no longer is a Bitcoin believer, and sounded pessimistic about cryptocurrencies in general.
“The technology is definitely here to stay, but Bitcoin may have trouble evolving and keeping up,” Mark Karpeles said Wednesday in a chat on the online message board Reddit. “I could be wrong about this. I’ve been wrong about a lot of things.”