Mt. Gox Bitcoin Theft Was An Insider, Not Hackers, Say Police
It was the Bitcoin theft which rocked the whole of cryptocurrency in 2014 - a massive haul of 650,000 coins taken from Japanese exchange Mt. Gox, the largest bitcoin exchange in the world at that time. It has been blamed by many as being a major factor behind the declining value of a bitcoin over the last year, and is often cited as an example of why using Bitcoin is a risky business. The cause of the loss has been the subject of much speculation, but as we move into the new year of 2015, Tokyo police investigating the loss have told The Japan News that the vast majority of the missing....
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