Silk Road trial needs more evidence for Mt. Gox connection

Any backdoor connection that the Silk Road online market might have had with Mark Karpeles, the founder of the failed Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange, will have to be disregarded unless defense attorneys present stronger evidence, the judge in the U.S. federal trial against Russ Ulbricht said Tuesday.Ulbricht’s defense attorney Joshua Dratel surprised the courtroom last week when he asserted that prosecutors had originally suspected Karpeles as the leader behind Silk Road, a site that allegedly fa