Former Mt Gox chief executive Mark Karpelès has reflected on the 2014 collapse of the once-dominant bitcoin exchange and his subsequent detention in Japan.
Karpelès now lives a low-profile life in Japan, working on privacy, cloud computing and artificial intelligence projects.
He currently serves as chief protocol officer at vp.net, a VPN that allows users to verify server code using secure hardware technology.
Karpelès is also developing an AI automation system through his personal cloud platform shells.com.
He said the tools are designed to give artificial intelligence full control over virtual machines.
Fifteen years ago, Karpelès ran Mt Gox when it processed the majority of global bitcoin trading volume.
His involvement with bitcoin began in 2010 after a client requested to pay for hosting services using the digital currency.
He’s the one who discovered Bitcoin, and asked me if he could use Bitcoin to pay for my services.
Mark Karpelès said.
In 2011, Karpelès acquired Mt Gox from Jed McCaleb amid unresolved technical and security issues.
He claimed that tens of thousands of bitcoins were stolen before he gained full control of the exchange.