Person

Mark Karpelès

French entrepreneur, CEO of Mt. Gox from 2011 until its 2014 collapse. Convicted in Japan in 2019 of falsifying business records; acquitted of embezzlement.

Records: 1
Cumulative losses: $450.0M

Records featuring Mark Karpelès

enabler·February 24, 2014ongoing
Mt. Gox Collapse — February 2014
The exchange handling 70 percent of global Bitcoin trading suspended withdrawals, filed for bankruptcy, and disclosed the loss of 850,000 BTC — a recovery that is still being distributed to creditors a decade later.
$450.0M affected

Records featuring Mark Karpelès

Mt. Gox Collapse — February 2014