The Inside Story of Mt. Gox, Bitcoin’s $460 Million Disaster | Enterprise | WIRED Mark Karpeles, the chief executive officer of bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, center, is escorted as he leaves the Tokyo District Court this past Friday. Photo: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg via Getty Images From a distance, the world’s largest bitcoin exchange loo
Bitcoin exchange Mt.Gox files for bankruptcy - Feb. 28, 2014 Mt.Gox CEO Mark Karpeles bowed in apology at a press conference in Tokyo announcing the bitcoin exchange would seek bankruptcy protection. The company filed for bankruptcy protection at a Tokyo court on Friday with debts of 6.5 billion yen ($64 million),
Mt. Gox files for bankruptcy, hit with lawsuit | Reuters The collapse caps a tumultuous few weeks in which the company has remained virtually silent after halting trades of the crypto-currency, shaking the nascent but burgeoning bitcoin community. Wearing a suit instead of his customary T-shirt, Mt. Gox's Frenc
Bitcoin Mass Hysteria: The Disaster that Brought Down Mt. Gox The Bitcoin world went into a panic on February 24 at 6:23 pm EST. That's when prominent Bitcoin blogger Ryan Selkis made a post to his blog in which he described an unverified report that Mt. Gox - a popular Bitcoin exchange - may have lost nearly 745,00
Mt. Gox Allegedly Loses $350 Million in Bitcoin (744,400 BTC) UPDATE (25th February, 17:30 GMT): Mt. Gox has released a statement on its website concerning its decision to halt trading. UPDATE (25th February, 13:47 GMT): Domain investor Andy Booth has confirmed the sale of www.gox.com to Mark Karpeles. UPDATE (25th
Catharsis Ours: Bitcoin Plunges As Major Exchange Mt. Gox Halts All Withdrawals ( Is the amount of c While Silbert did suggest that the news from Mt. Gox provided additional value to his company’s newest offering, the move to begin openly working with sellers did not happen overnight. Silbert noted that his team has been sourcing bitcoin on and off excha
Mt. Gox loses 744,408 bitcoins - 14 biggest tech fails of 2014 - CNNMoney What was once the world's largest trading platform for bitcoin fell victim to what was essentially a massive bank robbery. Cyber attackers duped Mt.Gox with a scheme resembling receipt fraud. When Mt.Gox discovered it was under attack, it stopped investor
Bitcoin Exchanges Under 'Massive and Concerted Attack' A "massive and concerted attack" has been launched by a bot system on numerous bitcoin exchanges, Andreas Antonopoulos has revealed. This has lead to popular exchange Bitstamp putting a temporary halt on all bitcoin withdrawals, and BTC-e announcing possi
Andreas Antonopoulos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a California-based information security expert, tech-entrepreneur and author.[2] He is a public speaker, permanent host of the Let's Talk Bitcoin podcast,[3] teaching fellow for the master in science Digital Currencies at the Un
Vilified Bitcoin Tycoon After Losing $500 Million: My Life Is at Risk - The Daily Beast In the first interview with Mt. Gox’s Mark Karpeles since Japanese police launched an investigation into his bankrupt exchange, he says he’s just a regular geek—and that he’s in danger. TOKYO, Japan — What was once the world’s largest bitcoin exchange, Mt
