Mt. Gox Finds 200,000 Forgotten Bitcoins in Old Wallet
 

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. 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

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Mt. Gox moved the bitcoins offline on March 14-15 "for security reasons."

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