## Freenode owner Andrew Lee co-founded Mt. Gox Live

-> Andrew Lee is a long-time privacy advocate, and has co-founded several other privacy related companies in the past including Mt Gox Live which was later acquired by Mt Gox the leading Bitcoin exchange

-> https://foundation.gnome.org/2013/09/23/interview-with-andrew-lee-of-private-internet-access/

## Mt Gox Live later acquired by Mt Gox, where **$450 million USD were lost/stolen**

-> Co-founder is Andrew Lee a long,  a long-time Bitcoin promoter. He was also founder of Mt. Gox Live, that was subsequently sold to (or merged with) Mt Gox the primary bitcoin exchange.  Mt Gox of course spectacularly collapsed when they “lost” 700,000 bitcoin worth an estimated $460 Million dollars.

-> https://thetrichordist.com/2016/08/23/progressive-zephyr-teachouts-financial-ties-to-pirate-party-and-bitcoin-promoters/

-> Two years before his death, Li Haiyuan found his crown prince through Li Xi-residence Andrew Lee, a distant relative in Los Angeles, 36 years old, grew up in the United States. He is a programmer and entrepreneur. His open source VPN project PIA and Bitcoin trading platform Mt. Gox Live have both achieved certain success. 

-> https://daydaynews.cc/en/history/840186.html

-> In 2010 he launched an anonymous VPN service called Private Internet Access that he later sold for $95.5 million, and worked on a Bitcoin price tracker that was eventually acquired by Mt. Gox.

-> https://hackaday.com/2021/05/20/freenode-debacle-prompts-staff-exodus-new-network/

-> In February of this year, Dahlskjaer put the logo of Shells.com on the Freenode website. Shells is a company co-founded by Lee, at which Mark Karpeles, the founder of the highly controversial (and defunct) Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, is

-> https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7ev8y/freenode-open-source-korea-crown-prince-takeover

## Andrew Lee hires **Mark Karpeles** from Mt. Gox as CTO

-> On March 14, 2019, the Tokyo District Court found Karpelès guilty of falsifying data to inflate Mt. Gox’s holdings by $33.5 million, for which he was sentenced to 30 months in prison, suspended for four years

-> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Karpel%25C3%25A8s

Mark Karpeles is the CTO of Shells.com and Andrew Lee its co-founder.

-> https://www.shells.com/l/en-US/team

After the collapse of Mt. Gox, Karpelès joined London Trust Media, the company behind Freenode and Private Internet Access, as its CTO in April 2018.

-> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Karpel%25C3%25A8s

-> https://www.cnet.com/news/mt-gox-bitcoin-exchange-former-ceo-karpeles-lands-new-job/

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