Japanese Police Shut Down Protest at Mt. Gox
The small group of protestors outside Mt. Gox in Tokyo were moved on late yesterday by Japanese police, and warned not to return without a 'demonstration license'. Organizer Kolin Burges said the police were called not by Mt. Gox, but one of the building's other tenants who had reportedly had enough of the protestors' week-long presence at the building. Mt. Gox management was also said to be irritated by the ongoing sit-in, claiming "security problems" caused by the protest and other technical issues were slowing its progress at fixing its bitcoin withdrawal problem. The company had....
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