The Doom of Mt. Gox - Website Offline, Shunned By Industry Leaders, All Trading Halted
The Mt. Gox website currently fails to load. As Mt. Gox have been using Cloudflare since the DDOS attacks which crippled the exchange last year, the most likely explanation is that the site has been taken down by the owners. - It's no secret that Mt. Gox has been sick for a long time. Last year the exchange had major lag and legal problems, this year withdrawal fiat and then Bitcoin was suspended amid a public relations fiasco. Now the grim prospect of insolvency faces all Gox customers. It now seems the axe is falling on Gox. A post appearing on the Blockchain.info and Coinbase blogs,....
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Hours after Japan-based bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox suddenly halted trading activity, the company's website is now completely offline. Notably, the news follows other troubling signs that all is not right with the exchange, such as its sudden removal of its entire Twitter feed. Bitcoincharts market section shows the last trade on Mt. Gox occurred at 01:59:06 UTC, which is 8:59 EST. When users logged into the bitcoin exchange's website they were experiencing the following error message when trying to buy or sell bitcoins: Not long after the suspension in trading activity and subsequent outage,....
The folks at Mt. Gox have finally broken their silence, posting a very plain and mostly confusing statement on their website concerning the drama that has unfolded in the past twelve hours. Dear MtGox Customers, In the event of recent news reports and the potential repercussions on MtGox's operations and the market, a decision was taken to close all transactions for the time being in order to protect the site and our users. We will be closely monitoring the situation and will react accordingly. Best regards, MtGox Team. With major publications declaring the exchange dead as of last night,....
The closing of the exchange, along with a plunging ruble, may have a devastating impact on the lives of ordinary Russian citizens. As reported by local news outlet TASS, the Central Bank of Russia once again suspended trading on the nation’s leading Moscow Stock Exchange (MOEX) on Wednesday, and it will not open the exchange on Thursday. Trading on MOEX has been halted since Feb. 25, after Russia launched its ongoing military campaign in Ukraine. On a monthly basis, the exchange’s index has lost over 34% of its value (not adjusted for inflation), as Western leaders have imposed crippling....
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