Mark Karpelès, former CEO of Mt. Gox, recounts his experience of the 2014 Bitcoin exchange collapse and subsequent nearly year-long detention in Japan. He discusses the technical and managerial challenges inherited at Mt. Gox, the massive bitcoin theft, and the severe treatment he faced, including solitary confinement. Now focused on building privacy-enhancing tech and AI platforms, Karpelès critiques current crypto centralization trends and remains committed to solving problems through innovation.

