MtGox Gets FinCEN MSB License
Nearly one and a half months ago, the world's largest Bitcoin exchange took a sudden and crushing blow from the United States government when the Department of Homeland Security shut down MtGox's Dwolla account, claiming that MtGox (or, more specifically, its US subsidiary Mutum Sigillum LLC) had been operating as a money transmitter without a license....
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MtGox is left playing by themselves. Photo via unicefiran. It's not clear as to whether or not MtGox was expecting others to agree with them on transaction malleability, but yesterday's announcement proved they pretty much have zero friends in the Bitcoin world. After releasing their announcement in the morning, it seemed that every other big player in the Bitcoin space decided to basically take Bitcoin's side over MtGox. After all, MtGox was blaming all of their problems on an issue that has been known about for years, so it's not clear what their true intentions were with their press....
Roger Ver speaking at LeWeb 2013. Photo via LeWeb13. Roger Ver, also known as Bitcoin Jesus, is looking to buy MtGox bitcoins from people who believe the Bitcoin exchange may be insolvent. As reported yesterday, people are already selling their MtGox bitcoins at discounted rates on a new exchange that popped up overnight. Ver made a post on the bitcointalk forum where he stated his interesting in purchasing at least 100 bitcoins from other MtGox users. It's interesting to see this bid of confidence from Ver after so many people in the Bitcoin community have been bashing MtGox for the past....