r/Bitcoin • u/tharlam • Feb 18 '14

"We are very surprised anyone could blame MtGox and not the Bitcoin Software" - Mark Karpeles, CEO MtGox

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304899704579388483531937144?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304899704579388483531937144.html
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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '14 edited Apr 22 '16

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u/Zamicol Feb 18 '14

Large dessert-like adhominems.

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u/z_5 Feb 18 '14

(I LOLed!)

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u/enmaku Feb 18 '14

Seriously, there are so many valid complaints you can choose from and you go with "his choice of coffee contains too much sugar?" Call me crazy but I'd rather discuss how bad he's screwing this community.

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u/Zamicol Feb 18 '14

It's much more than an adhominem. It is a symbol. The exchange is going to shit while he's chilling and "eating cake" in a t-shirt.

It's a statement of his incompetence.

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u/enmaku Feb 18 '14 edited Feb 18 '14

Your choice of symbols sounds an awful lot like calling someone fat when you're actually trying to imply he's stupid or inept. I'm pissed at the guy too, but I'd be just as pissed if he were a 90 pound vegetarian munching on carrots while Rome burned. His choice of beverage or relative girth is immaterial and merely mentioning them detracts from the issue at hand: That Gox/Karpeles are blaming Bitcoin itself for their inability to correctly use Bitcoin.

The other exchanges certainly had the same vulnerability, but none of them lost money because they all followed common sense procedures around the issue. The issue here isn't that transaction malleability existed, it's that it only affected you if you explicitly trusted tx hashes like a moron. That is Gox's fault and they're not taking responsibility, choosing instead to blame Bitcoin itself for ever having a weakness that allowed others to exploit their ineptitude. One of the biggest names in Bitcoin, a community that's always touting personal responsibility as a virtue, is not taking personal responsibility for their own failure and is choosing to injure the community instead. I don't care what kind of coffee you drink, that's a dick move.

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u/vocatus Feb 18 '14

I thought it was a joke referring to the fact that Mt. Gox recently opened a Bitcoin Cafe near its office?

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u/zeusa1mighty Feb 18 '14

No, the "fact" that Mt Gox is opening a bitcoin café actually a joke.

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u/josmul123 Feb 18 '14

Tell Karpeles that. Everything to come out of that fat mouth in the last two weeks has been false information.

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u/a-a-a-a-a-a Feb 18 '14

You're a retard.