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Mark Karpelès takes control of Mt. Gox

Jed McCaleb sold the Mt. Gox exchange to Mark Karpelès as trading activity expanded.

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Karpelès moved the company’s operations to Japan and oversaw its growth into Bitcoin’s dominant exchange. The transfer placed a central piece of market infrastructure under new ownership before the platform’s later crises.