MyCoin Bitcoin Scam – The Sequel to a Bitcoin Nightmare
When the first major bit-heist, Mt. Gox, happened, many in the crypto community might have been forgiven for thinking that it had been but a minor case of arrhythmia. …
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Kraken Selected for MtGox Investigation
Bitcoin exchange Kraken has been selected to aid in the investigation of missing Bitcoin following the heist at the Mt Gox exchange. Kraken will also be involved in the …
Bitcoin Exchange founder Mark Karpelès speaks to the Wall Street Journal
Mark Karpelès, former head of Mt. Gox, recently spoke to the Wall Street Journal. This is his first media interview since the theft of approximately half a billion dollars …
Goxxed For The Last Time, A Fall of MtGox (commiserative) Coin
With all the news about how people lost their money with MtGox and the ongoing madness with it I saw, a while back, a concept for the Goxxed For …
Report Suggests MtGox Fraud Led to $1200 Bitcoin Price
It turns out that the extreme rise in the bitcoin price near the end of the 2013 may not have had much to do with China, Silk Road, or …
Mt. Gox: long investigation pending after court bankruptcy ruling
The Mt. Gox website got updated with a new document. The Tokyo District Court ordered liquidation to begin at the failed Bitcoin exchange. This definitive order follows an earlier …
Karpeles faces immediate arrest in United States
In an article last week, CCN reported on a US judge ordering Mark Karpeles to travel to the United States for hearing if he wanted bankruptcy protection there. This …
Mt. Gox CEO Karpeles refuses travel to U.S. for questioning
Mark Karpeles must be one of the most talked about people in the world of Bitcoin. Normally, one would be happy to be a trending topic but in Karpeles’ …
Audit shows Kraken’s reserve covers all balances
Bitcoin exchange Kraken has announced it has passed an audit that proves that more than 100% of Kraken’s Bitcoins are held in reserve. The whole process shows that Kraken …
Mt gox ‘Discovery’: US Lawyers not convinced.
Mt gox’s announcement, yesterday, that it had ‘Discovered’ an old format wallet containing almost twenty-five percent of the missing bitcoins is being viewed as highly suspect. The bankrupt exchange …
Massachusetts reviewing legality of Boston Bitcoin ATM
Last Tuesday, another warning against the usage of Bitcoin was thrown into the world. The Massachusetts Consumer Affairs Office issued an official consumer alert, warning people about the risks …
Support worker gets Bitcoin exchange hacked
Another Bitcoin exchange has been hacked. Canadian Bitcoins, an exchange based in Ottawa, has lost over $100,000 worth of Bitcoins in a heist that happened during an incident on …
BREAKING: MtGox.com Accepting Logins
Early in the morning Japan time, Tuesday, MtGox.com suddenly began allowing former users to log in to their accounts in order to check their wallet balances. Without warning, the …
Mt. Gox kept trading despite knowing of theft
The Mt. Gox saga just doesn’t stop. After filing for bankruptcy in Japan, the once popular exchange now did the same in the United States. When taking a closer …
$113 Million ‘Mt Gox’ bitcoins may be moving through blockchain
Movements from Mt Gox? Since Mt Gox spectacularly applied for bankruptcy protection, leaving an estimated half a billion dollars of a hole behind it, there have been people …
The Many Tendrils of Mark Karpeles and Paranoia They Cause
As the continuing fallout from the MtGox disaster happens the negative publicity and the infamy of Mark Karpeles grows. Mark with his Companies shed a large shadow on other …
Your Money and Japanese Law: Mt. Gox’ Future
This story has been updated to reflect the possibility that all MtGox account holders are considered “unsecured creditors” whose rights may be altered under bankruptcy laws. Additionally, MtGox has already filed …
MtGox Leak Update: No Buyers, Gox Acted “Alone and In Desperation”
“The Two-Bit-Idiot,” who leaked the original document blowing the lid off MtGox, has declared via Tumblr to have “all of the pieces to the Mt. Gox puzzle,” which depicts …
Bitcoin Competitors Coordinate to Protect the Industry
MtGox is dead, insolvent, and lost 6% of all bitcoins in existence, or so the rumor goes. The only thing that is factually known at this time is that …