The first employee of the Bitcoin Exchange "Mt. Gox" where the president was arrested but is there any question?

ByAntana

As an exchange of the virtual currency "Bitcoin (bit coin)" it was temporarily handled more than 70% of the whole "Mt. Gox(Mount GOX) ". Ashley Barr (so-called Adam Turner), the first employee of such Mt.Gox, has appeared in reddit and answered various questions.

I'm Ashley Barr, A. K.A "Adam Turner", the first Mt. Gox employee, and alleged DPR (: /). AMA: Bitcoin
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3fe92x/im_ashley_barr_aka_adam_turner_the_first_mtgox/


On August 1, 2015, Marc Calpress, CEO of the failed bit coin exchange "Mt. Gox", was authorized to create electromagnetic record illegallyArrestIt was done.

Originally, the collapse of Mt. Gox was thought to be caused by a large-scale cyber attack, that is, "a bit coin thief." The damage amount is the market priceApproximately 40 billion yenIt is also said. Also, according to the Metropolitan Police Department, Calperes was suspected of having inflated an account balance of his own name by one million dollars (about 120 million yen), but according to new informationThe infusion of cash outstanding amounts to billions of yen, And that.

Please read the following article on the status of Mt. Gox at the time when applying for the application of civil rehabilitation law on February 28, 2014.

Trouble with MtGox applying for civil rehabilitation procedure and future Bitcoin - GIGAZINE


Ashley Barr, so-called Adam Turner, who joined such Mt. Gox as the first employee in June 2011 and was temporarily dismissed in May 2012 while becoming a CEO at one time. He said, with other Mt. Gox former employees who cooperated in the investigation of the Metropolitan Police Department, "We are planning to eat pizza in front of him while Marc is being caught" It seems that anger is accumulating. Mr Barr answers various questions on reddit before pizza relieves stress.

◆ Q01: What happened when you were in Mt.Gox?

A 01:
I was hired by Mt.Gox as my first employee. Marc hired his friend as a developer, but the number was not that much. In Mt.Gox everything is managed by Mark, and Marc and his friends developers are Oblivion andSuper Meat BoyI remember playing and playing games like. But I will not blame such developers. Because they did not have any access rights, even old servers exchanged by Marc could not be accessed. On work, Marc was a lone wolf.

When Mark asked me if he would be CEO of Mt.Gox, I said that I would like you to show me the financial report of the company. But he did not do so, he said that he would show it later and he just pressed to become CEO. So I calculated how much Mt.Gox is profitable with several employees from past history of transactions conducted at Mt.Gox that is being published. Together with the information on expenditure, I found that Mt.Gox used inefficient expenses. I set up opportunities to talk about Marc and this and if I can not explain the details of expenditure, I can not get to the CEO.


Mr. Barr recalls that "Mt. Gox felt like an RPG played by Marc", I look back on the situation at that time.

◆ Q02: Do you have cold wallet (offline wallet for bit coin savings)? How did the wallet system work? Did you access the database? Where did the bit coin go?

A 02:
I could not access the database, and as far as I knew no one else could access the Mt.Gox back end. Also, when I was in Mt.Gox, only Mark could access the Mt.Gox database. In addition, I do not have a cold wallet.

However, it seems that Maruku implied that there was a mechanism for informing close friends about the existence of cold wallets when they died. However, when Barr asked the person, I also revealed that I was told I did not think something Marc says.

ByMags

◆ Q03: I do not feel worried that I will be prosecuted when I see your comment, but when you were enrolled I thought that Mt.Gox had a sufficient amount of bit coins kept Do you? If so, how long do you think it is not so anymore?

A 03:
At the time when I was enrolled, I think that all the bit coins deposited from the user were always kept. In my opinion, I think that it was from April 2013 that I came across beyond the scope dealt with by Marc himself. In addition, according to the story I heard from former employees of Mt. Gox, in April 2013, an account that seemed to be buying bit coins excessively was found, which is an account inside the company It seems that it was like.

According to this answer, the question "This account is the cause of the bit coin bubble of 2013?" Was asked by the reddit user, Barr replied "I do not have any evidence, but I think so."

◆ Q04: Why did he try to contact Marc or you with mail leaked before Ross was arrested?

"Roth" is about Mr. Ros Urbricht who was an operator of the site "Silk Road" which was conducting illegal drug trading using bit coins. See the following article on Silk Road.

What is the influence that the illegal drug site "Silk Road" gave to the virtual currency "Bitcoin"? - GIGAZINE


A04:
Did Ross try to contact with me? Do you have a mail that shows it? I do not know such a thing at all. As far as I can tell, Marc did not talk about Silk Road other than a negative opinion. In addition, Mark had taken a negative position on drugs, avoiding mention of contact and support with Silk Road. I myself have not received any contact from Marc or Silk Road after leaving Mt.Gox.

◆ Q05: If your real name is "Ashley Barr", why was it called "Adam Turner" in Mt.Gox?

A05:
In the first week when I was hired Mt.Gox was hacked. Many people in the bit coin community were in hacked form. In response to this, I did not want to give my name and I no longer felt the need to risk risk exposing my own name. In addition, I did not know how good the security built by Marc was, so after all I decided to join the community as Adam Turner. However, although it is my real name I did not know even Mt. Gox employees, it was truly amazing that the US Department of Homeland Security knew about it.

◆ 06: Have clients who gave special authority etc. from the mark existed?

A06:
There was a user called "market developer". I do not know what kind of user they were and I do not know the account details. However, I think that such accounts were numbers less than 3 to 5.

ByScott Pacaldo

◆ 07: I believe that it was very irresponsible that Mt. Gox employees and former employees did not reveal anything about the company.

A07:
There was no evidence, there was a situation where nobody could directly access other than Maruku. So, there was nothing I could report. It is really terrible ... ....

According to Barr's response, the office of Mt. Gox seemed to be opposite the Big Camera in Shibuya, and it seems there was a pub with 3 floors that can drink beer at 180 yen in the vicinity.