Posts Tagged ‘MtGox situation’

MtGox’s Mark Karpeles Just Tripped and Found 200000 Bitcoins

21, Mar 2014

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MtGox has announced that they were able to recover 200000 Bitcoins from an “old-format wallet used prior to June 2011”, coins that could be returned to customers that NtGox owes money to. This “miracle” sounds a lot like a popular scam scheme where customers get back some of their invested money and are happy that they get at least something and are not left completely empty handed. We do not believe in miracles where you can find so many BTCs in an old and unused wallet, just like that Mark Karpeles could also find another 650000 BTC stashed in his personal “old wallet”, coins that we will surely not announce as being found.

– If you want to read the official press release regarding the “found coins” from MtGox…

Update with the MtGox Situation, Check Your Account Balance

18, Mar 2014

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It seems that MtGox has updated their website by providing a login option, so that users can check their wallet balance in the service to see what coins and money they are having in MtGox. There is also the text below that describes what is the purpose of the login option:

Important announcement to all users confirming their account
This balance confirmation service is provided on this site only for the convenience of all users.
Please be aware that confirming the balance on this site does not constitute a filing of rehabilitation claims under the civil rehabilitation procedure and note that the balance amounts shown on this site should also not be considered an acknowledgment by MtGox Co., Ltd. of the amount of any rehabilitation claims of users.
Rehabilitation claims under a civil rehabilitation procedure become confirmed from a filing which is followed by an investigation procedure. The method for filing claims will be published on this site as soon as we will be in situation to announce it.

We have logged in to check if the website does indeed show the correct balances from before going offline and we could see what we’ve had in our account listed correctly. Just a few Bitcoin cents that were there for the sake of testing some automated trading solutions with MtGox support, otherwise we would not have any BTC there.


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