What is the Bitcoin missing were actually seized by the US government in the ongoing investigation of Silk Road and Karpales cannot say because of a gag order?
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I do not know anything about bankruptcy laws in Japan. > > As I expected, this was the lead story on NHK news, with Mark Karpeles > bowing. He seemed to smirking too, oddly enough. His Japanese is not as > good as I thought, but I guess he is stressed. > > Here is Reuters' take on the story: > > > Feb 28 (Reuters) - Close to half a billion dollars worth of the bitcoin > virtual currency has gone missing from an exchange in Tokyo - in what is > either the bank heist of the century or a sloppy glitch, or a combination > of the two. > > Mark Karpeles, the 28-year-old French CEO of Mt. Gox, which once handled > around 80 percent of the world's bitcoin trades, filed for bankruptcy at a > Tokyo District Court late on Friday. His lawyer said that nearly all the > bitcoins in the exchange's possession - 850,000 of them - were missing. > Karpeles blamed hackers. . . . >
