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Topic: Mt. Gox files for bankruptcy, blames hackers (Read 780 times)

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Bitcoin will survive
February 28, 2014, 10:54:43 AM
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French CEO Mark Karpeles bowed in contrition and apologised in Japanese at a news conference at the Tokyo District Court, blaming his firm's collapse on a "weakness in our system", but predicting that bitcoin would continue to grow

Mark you are the weakness!
his weakness give some bad time to bitcoin but now its must be out of trouble because Mark is out now with his weakness  Cheesy
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February 28, 2014, 10:42:52 AM
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French CEO Mark Karpeles bowed in contrition and apologised in Japanese at a news conference at the Tokyo District Court, blaming his firm's collapse on a "weakness in our system", but predicting that bitcoin would continue to grow

Mark you are the weakness!
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February 28, 2014, 10:41:17 AM
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Gox did go bankrupt, and the total body count is 850,000 coins - 750,000 customer coins and 100,000 of the exchange's own. Here's Mark at the Tokyo District Court at a news conference:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/28/us-bitcoin-mtgox-bankruptcy-idUSBREA1R0FX20140228

There's more, though.  Also, there's a $27+ million discrepancy in Gox's bank account.

7% of all bitcoins in circulation are now owned by hackers, plus any previous thefts.

Mark is "very sorry" Smiley
legendary
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February 28, 2014, 10:31:53 AM
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I think Mt Gox got their customers coins and they want to blame hackers for this.

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Mt. Gox, once the world's biggest bitcoin exchange, filed for bankruptcy protection in Japan on Friday, saying it may have lost nearly half a billion dollars worth of the virtual coins due to hacking into its faulty computer system.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/mt-gox-files-bankruptcy-protection-094811743.html

I dont think so.
:-)

It would be like a shoot own head out.
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February 28, 2014, 09:39:38 AM
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I think Mt Gox got their customers coins and they want to blame hackers for this.

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Mt. Gox, once the world's biggest bitcoin exchange, filed for bankruptcy protection in Japan on Friday, saying it may have lost nearly half a billion dollars worth of the virtual coins due to hacking into its faulty computer system.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/mt-gox-files-bankruptcy-protection-094811743.html
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