/biz/ - Business & Finance

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/03/bitcoin-exchange/

>The 28-year-old Karpeles was born in France, but after spending some time in Israel, he settled down in Japan. There he got married, posted cat videos and became a father. In 201s1, he acquired the Mt. Gox exchange in from an American entrepreneur named Jed McCaleb.s

>And, according to insiders, he thought nothing of dropping the business of the day to order flat screen TVs or $400 lunches for the staff of Gox’s expanded Tokyo headquarters, which now occupies three floors of a modern office building in the city’s Shibuya neighborhood. “He likes to be praised, and he likes to be called the king of bitcoin,” says another insider who spoke on condition of anonymity. “He always talks about how he’s a member of Mensa and has an above-average IQ.”

/pol/ is gonna love this shit