Mt Gox 前執行長 Mark Karpelès 帶著 EllipX 重返加密產業

Karpelès 是法國人，但仍居住在日本，他表示，在杜拜投資者 Edip Nezir 的支持下，該公司擁有 17,000 名用戶，主要在歐洲，但希望擴展到其他地方。

Mark Karpelès, the former head of bankrupt crypto exchange Mt Gox, is returning to the industry with a new venture — a crypto exchange in Poland that is touting its security and transparency features.

破產的加密貨幣交易所Mt Gox 的前負責人 Mark Karpelès 帶著一家新企業重返該行業——一家位於波蘭的加密貨幣交易所，該交易所宣傳其安全性和透明度功能。

Backed by Dubai-based investor Edip Nezir, EllipX has 17,000 users mainly in Europe but is hoping to expand elsewhere, said Karpelès, who is French but still based in Japan.

Karpelès 是法國人，但仍居住在日本，他表示，在杜拜投資者 Edip Nezir 的支持下，EllipX 擁有 17,000 名用戶，主要在歐洲，但希望擴展到其他地方。

This includes the UK, where EllipX is seeking approval from the Financial Conduct Authority, the City regulator, which requires crypto companies that want to offer services in Britain to meet anti-money laundering rules and register with it. The FCA did not comment.

其中包括英國，EllipX 正在尋求金融市場監管機構金融行為監管局的批准，該監管機構要求想要在英國提供服務的加密貨幣公司滿足反洗錢規則並在其註冊。 FCA 未予置評。

Karpelès said he had “quite a few” regrets about Mt Gox, adding: “I wish I could have done better.”

卡佩萊斯表示，他對 Mt Gox 感到“相當多”遺憾，並補充說：“我希望自己能做得更好。”

However, the disaster was not proving to be an obstacle to building a new exchange, he argued. “A lot of customers who know about Mt Gox actually find it interesting to see what kind of solutions I come up with to restore trust.”

然而，他認為，這場災難並沒有成為建立新交易所的障礙。 “許多了解 Mt Gox 的客戶實際上都覺得很有趣，看看我想出了什麼樣的解決方案來恢復信任。”

He said he had developed EllipX because security and transparency in the crypto industry, which were lacking when he ran Mt Gox, were still not widespread.

他表示，他之所以開發 EllipX，是因為加密產業的安全性和透明度尚未普及，而這在他經營 Mt Gox 時是缺乏的。

The Mt Gox disaster was one of the first big crises to hit the crypto market, which was created with the launch of bitcoin in 2009. At one point the exchange accounted for 80 per cent of all bitcoin trades and its subsequent failure sent shock waves through the industry. Two Russians were charged in 2023 by the US Department of Justice with conspiring to launder 647,000 bitcoins hacked from Mt Gox in 2011, which was the same year that Karpelès acquired the exchange.

Mt Gox 災難是加密貨幣市場遭遇的首批重大危機之一，該市場是隨著2009 年比特幣的推出而引發的。加密貨幣市場帶來了衝擊。 2023 年，美國司法部指控兩名俄羅斯人合謀洗錢 2011 年從 Mt Gox 竊取的 647,000 枚比特幣，同年 Karpelès 收購了該交易所。

The implosion of Mt Gox led to Karpelès being arrested in 2015 and spending almost a year in custody in Japan before being released on bail. He said that while in detention he was allowed to purchase a simple calculator, which he used to sift through 20,000 pages of evidence, including 5,000 pages of accounting records, and begin building a defence.

Mt Gox 的內爆導致卡佩萊斯於 2015 年被捕，並在日本被拘留了近一年，然後才獲得保釋。他說，在拘留期間，他被允許購買一個簡單的計算器，他用它來篩選 20,000 頁證據，包括 5,000 頁會計記錄，並開始建立辯護。

While he was found not guilty of the more serious charges he faced, the Tokyo district court concluded that Karpelès had caused “massive harm to the trust of his users” by falsifying records.

雖然他所面臨的更嚴重的指控被判無罪，但東京地方法院得出結論，卡佩萊斯因偽造記錄而「嚴重損害了用戶的信任」。