Mt. Gox Confirms ~200,000 Bitcoins Under Their Control... But Bitcoiners Already Knew That
Mt. Gox has released a PDF in Japanese and English detailing the recovery of ~200,000 BTC. Read it here! This news was originally broken in a Japanese language post on Yahoo, Mt. Gox's Mark Karpeles admitted that Mt. Gox was still in control of 200,000 BTC, roughly 23.52% of the 800,000 BTC that they claimed to have lost in their civil rehabilitation proceedings. The google translated text of the Yahoo article is as follows: Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox which collapsed in February announced on 20th that they have found they're still in possession of the 200,000 BTC out of the 850,000 BTC that....
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