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03-21-2014, 04:03 PM
Mt. Gox Finds 200,000 Forgotten Bitcoins in Old Wallet
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Mt. Gox, the troubled Bitcoin exchange, claims it has found 200,000 bitcoins that it had "forgotten" about.
The Tokyo-based Mt. Gox, which is **w under bankruptcy protection, an**unced the find on its website (https://www.mtgox.com/img/pdf/20140320-btc-an**unce.pdf). Mark Kapeles, the head of the exchange, said the cache was found March 7. The bitcoins — worth about $118 million at the time of writing — were stored in an "old format wallet which was used prior to June 2011," according to the company
See also: A Complete, Interactive History of Bitcoin (http://mashable.com/2014/02/10/bitcoin-history/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
Mt. Gox moved the bitcoins offline on March 14-15 "for security reasons."
Members of the Bitcoin community were skeptical about the an**uncement Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/21/mt-gox-found-bitcoins/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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Mt. Gox, the troubled Bitcoin exchange, claims it has found 200,000 bitcoins that it had "forgotten" about.
The Tokyo-based Mt. Gox, which is **w under bankruptcy protection, an**unced the find on its website (https://www.mtgox.com/img/pdf/20140320-btc-an**unce.pdf). Mark Kapeles, the head of the exchange, said the cache was found March 7. The bitcoins — worth about $118 million at the time of writing — were stored in an "old format wallet which was used prior to June 2011," according to the company
See also: A Complete, Interactive History of Bitcoin (http://mashable.com/2014/02/10/bitcoin-history/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
Mt. Gox moved the bitcoins offline on March 14-15 "for security reasons."
Members of the Bitcoin community were skeptical about the an**uncement Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/21/mt-gox-found-bitcoins/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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