Mt. Gox creditors demand payment - In bitcoins
Ben McLannahan, writing in today's Financial Times, is reporting that Mt Gox creditors in Tokyo have demanded payments to them be paid in the form of bitcoins rather than cash. Mt Gox was once the largest online exchange but went offline in February of this year and revealed, or more accurately claimed that it had 'lost' 750,000 of its clients bitcoins as well as 100,000 of its own. Gox later claimed to have 'discovered' 200,000 lying around in an old digital file. In March of this year I wrote that $113 Million of bitcoins may be moving through the blockchain, and many of Mt Gox's....
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