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The Rise and Fall of the World’s Largest Bitcoin Exchange
• wired.com, By Robert McMillan and Cade MetzUnder Karpeles, Mt. Gox evolved into a reliable marketplace for buying and selling bitcoins, now the world’s most popular digital currency. By one estimate, Karpeles has made over $8 million plus 345,000 bitcoins (at current rates: $86 million) swapping bitcoins for dollars and yen and other federal currencies. But much like McCaleb, he’s a hacker rather than a businessman. He seems more at home talking about IRC than the IMF, and as Mt. Gox has grown, he and his company have found it difficult to deal with the realities of the financial world.
1 Comments in Response to The Rise and Fall of the World’s Largest Bitcoin Exchange
Rise or fall, MtGox is still online as of now (check the time-stamp of this comment). And the price is $307 per Bitcoin - highest it's ever been... outside of the $321 it hit an hour ago.
We need Cody Wilson's Dark Wallet, fast - see: http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/144710-2013-11-06-cody-wilson-explains-his-bitcoin-dark-wallet-project-in-an.htm - because this price rise/fluctuation will make the Senate even more scrutinizing - see: http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/144749-2013-11-06-bitcoin-comes-under-senate-scrutiny.htm.