Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpelès Now Running a Web Hosting Service
Things didn't quite pan out at Mt. Gox earlier this year, when the world's oldest bitcoin exchange forcibly submerged and drowned, losing hundreds of thousands of client bitcoins in the process. And while Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpelès hasn't made any friends in the ordeal, he and his company (Tibanne Co., Ltd.) are desperately working to move on and forward, focusing their attention on a different project. If you haven't already guessed by the title of this post, it's web hosting-related, and the newly-launched website is located at Forever.net. A quick browse of the website shows that the....
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Mark Karpeles, the disgraced CEO of defunct bitcoin exchange Mt Gox, has launched a new web hosting service. The service has been dubbed Forever.net and is registered under both Karpeles' name and that of Tibanne, the parent company of Mt Gox. The company profile says: "TIBANNE Co. Ltd. is a Tokyo, Japan-based corporation founded in 2009 by talented technopreneurs. TIBANNE specializes in web hosting, IP transit, VoIP, software development and network administration. We are currently engaged in the reserch and development of new and existing services to produce innovative solutions for our....
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