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Remember Mt. Gox?

Wait, what do you mean "remember"?

Seems they've gone offline.

From a CNET story:
Embattled Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has largely vanished from the Internet amid accusations that the exchange is insolvent after a years-long theft that resulted in the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars.

The Web site for the Tokyo-based exchange has been wiped clean, as has its official Twitter feed. A screen shot posted by a Reddit user indicates that trading on the exchange has been halted.


The exchange's apparent shutdown was linked to an alleged hacking that went unnoticed for years, according to a purported internal Mt. Gox document circulating on the Internet. Labeled "Crisis strategy draft," the document reports that the exchange suffered a loss of 744,000 Bitcoins, about $350 million at Monday's trading, and outlines a scheme for restoring confidence in the exchange.

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Date: 2014-02-25 04:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-dodecahedron.livejournal.com
How could this have happened? Bitcoin is free of politics and human error. At least that's what the Winklevii told me.

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Date: 2014-02-25 08:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] digitalemur.livejournal.com
"Pull our fingers." -The Winklevii

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Date: 2014-02-25 08:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] r-ness.livejournal.com
*snork*

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