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by smokeyj 2647 days ago
Comparing Magic The Gathering Online Exchange to an FDIC regulated bank.. He was running the equivalent of a fraudulent trading card ring that happened to become very valuable.

Mark has some of my coins and I think he's done enough time. Prison in general is cruel and unusual for anything besides violent offenders.

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When Mark started running it it was a Bitcoin exchange. Everyone banters about the origins of the name, but all they really did was reuse a domain name.