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Inside Job: Warrant Issued For Bitcoin Bandit, Accused Of Stealing MtGox Investor Assets

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Mark Melin
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Money cannot simply vanish from an exchange, even if that exchange trades in Bitcoin and was at one point a venue for exchange of magic cards. Japanese and other press reports say that the prosecutors in the region have leveled embezzlement charges against Mark, the French-born founder of the MtGox exchange.

Inside Job: Warrant Issued For Bitcoin Bandit, Accused Of Stealing MtGox Investor Assets

MtGox initially founded as a trading venue for magic cards, transitioned into bitcoin

Karpeles is alleged to have lifted nearly $2.6 million from MtGox investors who used his exchange to buy, sell...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.