Mark Karpelès still has the same malice in his heart.
A kind of amused placidity, perhaps innate, perhaps acquired at the end of an incredible career in bitcoin which, at 37, would already make a fine Netflix mini-series.
His latest bet: Ungox, a platform for rating trading platforms that he plans to launch this year.
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In 2015, this native of Chenôve (Burgundy) was arrested in Japan in front of the cameras.
The police accuse him, obviously without always fully understanding his own motives, of having robbed Montgox, his own bitcoin exchange platform, through which 80% of global transactions at the time passed.
Mark Karpelès spent almost a year in preventive detention.
“
My cell neighbors were in cell for fraud, pickpocketing, amphetamine trafficking…
”, he remembers today with this monotonous tone that he never leaves.
“
The only legacy I keep is my reaction to the radio, which is omnipresent in detention…
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