mt-gox

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February 28, 2014 NPR

Mt. Gox files for bankruptcy — 850,000 BTC lost

NPR ↔ Mark Karpeles

Mt. Gox — once the world's largest Bitcoin exchange handling ~70% of transactions — filed for bankruptcy in Tokyo. CEO Mark Karpeles revealed ~850,000 BTC (~$450M) had been lost.

November 23, 2011 Wired

"The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin" — Wired's landmark feature on Bitcoin's first boom and bust

Benjamin Wallace ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto, Gavin Andresen, Laszlo Hanyecz, Jeff Garzik, Hal Finney, Wei Dai, Nick Szabo, Stefan Thomas, Dan Kaminsky, Amir Taaki

Benjamin Wallace's Wired feature — an early major mainstream article on Bitcoin. Traces the whitepaper, mining boom, Mt. Gox hack, and growing pains, ending with Garzik's "We really don't care."