Mark Karpeles

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  • Bitcoin Foundation, founding member until 2014
  • Tibanne Co. Ltd., CEO but after the Mt. Gox disaster got it bankrupted.
  • Mt. Gox, bought 88% from Jed McCaleb
  • Is launching a blockchain cloud company in Japan called Tristan Technologies Co; Karpeles was cleared of fraud and embezzlement charges in March 2019 and is appealing a charge of tampering with records; if the appeal fails, Karpeles faces up to ten years in prison