News about Gox

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 years ago

Please help me if you know anything about MTgox

Just discussing with my spouse about some Bitcoin we use to have, I thought was gone forever. I came to Reddit and put in MTgox and see there is something going on. I purchased 14 Bitcoin in 2013 and thought they were stolen when I no longer heard fr...

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 years ago

Why do I keep hearing about a Mt Gox crash?

I keep seeing people talking about how Bitcoin is going to crash in a few weeks because of a Mt Gox payout? I'm a little out of the loop here, what does this mean? And is bitcoin going to crash? submitted by /u/NintendianaJones-64-...

by COINS NEWS - 2 years ago

Inside Mt. Gox' Private Chat Logs: "all the BTC is gone"

The exchange Mt. Gox was hacked multiple times with over 850,000 Bitcoin stolen. Mt. Gox was the largest Bitcoin exchange, being responsible for over 80% of all trades at its time. I have found these private chat logs, which were linked to in a...

by COINS NEWS - 2 years ago

Fascinating piece of history: in 2011, an anonymous man named Kevin bought 259,684.77 bitcoin for a penny each due to a Mt. Gox hack, intercepted a hacker that was buying it all, and showed incredible self constraint to not claim possession.

A person on bitcointalk by the name of “toasty” made a historic thread in how he discovered that a hacker was placing many orders for a penny while he was selling and buying massive amount of bitcoin which crashed the price from $17.50 to near zero....