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Even before MtGox declared bankruptcy protection, the ex-Bitcoin exchange was having internal problems. In fact, two years before filing for bankruptcy, around six employees challenged MtGox CEO Mark Karpeles about the details of their clients’ money. The employees wanted...

BuyBitcoin.ph, led by balikbayan co-founder and CEO Sam Kaddoura and founders Lasse Birk Olesen, Daniel Walton, and James Florentino, is a bitcoin company whose aim is to bring and spread the digital currency to the Philippine market. The average Filipino does not seem to know...

Weekly Report: March 28th, 2014 Here at CoinReport we like to breakdown the week’s bitcoin news and headlines for our readers. This week, ending March 28th 2014, we have seen more discussions on bitcoin and its regulation, heard about more security scares and witnessed the MtGox...

The now ex-bitcoin exchange based in Tokyo, Japan, Mt. Gox posted a recent update on its website on Friday, March 28th, regarding the current ongoing investigation into the demise of the exchange. The court sanctioned investigation into why the bitcoin exchange fell apart and...

Researchers at ETH Zurich University in Switzerland have released a new report mapping its findings on the now ex-bitcoin exchange, MtGox and transaction malleability. It has determined that the Tokyo based exchange may possibly have lost only 386 bitcoins due to issues...

Due to a recent report in which China’s central bank ordered payment companies and banks to close over 10 Bitcoin exchange’s trading accounts, Bitcoin price dropped almost 10%. The trading accounts are required to close by April 15, which prevents investors from transferring...

Mark Karpeles Mt. Gox creditors are trying to get the owner of the bitcoin exchange, Mark Karpeles, to come to the US for questioning in regards to fraud and the collapse of his company. A US judge was asked to order Karpeles to return to the US by Gregory Greene and Joseph Lack....

Even after the Vietnamese government said in February that it didn’t recognize Bitcoin and wouldn’t allow it for any transaction, Bitcoin has seen a rise in Vietnam. On March 25th, the Bitcoin Vietnam Company Ltd and Israeli Bit2C, announced that they would be opening the first...

Kraken a virtual currency exchange managed to rake in $5 million from Hummingbird Ventures in a Series A round of funding. Kraken appears to wish to be as big as MtGox, but better than the former ex-Bitcoin exchange ever was. According to CNET, the founder and CEO of Kraken,...

Once considered the first behemoth exchange, today only the carcass of MtGox remains. What lead to the demise of this Giant? Where to start?  At the beginning seems like the best idea. Most people are now aware that MtGox is an acronym for Magic: The Gathering Online eXchange and...