‘Bitcoinbeurs Mt. Gox asks to file for bankruptcy’

Mt. Gox has officially filed for bankruptcy. Reports that a U.s. newspaper based on anonymous sources. Previously asked the bitcoinbeurs postponement of payment to to be able to lift, but that plan would of the job.

Mt. Gox has not officially announced that it has filed for bankruptcy, but the American business newspaper The Wall Street Journal reports the bankruptcy petition on the basis of anonymous sources. According to one source, the business newspaper hopes Mt. Gox still that the activities of the stock exchange are taken over by another company.

The bitcoinbeurs early in February, postponement of payment, after the fair, say that hundreds of millions of euros to bitcoins was lost, probably stolen through a bug in the implementation of the bitcoinprotocol. Later it was a part of the bitcoins have been recovered. Experts suggest, however, that there is never as much as bitcoins through the bug could be captured.

Mt. Gox initially wanted to with the help of the deferral, the company is reorganizing, but experts warned immediately that that would be difficult: all creditors of Mt. Gox would therefore need to comply with the plans. This includes everyone that bitcoins on the stock exchange; in total, the stock market, therefore, 127.000 creditors.