The bitcoinbeurs has in its home country of Japan deferral of payment requested. This is, in any case, it has become clear that financial lwa le problems underlying the disappearance of the stock market earlier this week. In 2013 Mt. Gox still profit.
The message about the request of suspension of payment comes from Japanese media, writes Reuters. Probably the stock exchange no longer meets his payment obligations by a major theft. Earlier this week there were reports that Mt. Gox 744.000 bitcoins, with a total value of $ 350 million, in the past few years is lost by theft. Mt. Gox went Tuesday offline and the status of the stock exchange since then is unclear.
The financial problems are in stark contrast with the situation as it was presented in a document called Business Plan Europe 2014 – 2017. That document of 27 pages, published Wednesday online and seems to be coming from the board of the stock exchange, but it is not known whether it is an authentic document. In the plan state that Mt. Gox 286.000 dollar of profit made in 2013, and that the expectation was that this in 2014 would grow to 2 million dollars and even 39 million by 2016.
Meanwhile, it should be Mt. Gox in both Japan and the U.S. are the subject of research because of the problems. Which began after the service is discovered, the victim of transaction malleability. The exchange pointed the finger at the bitcoin protocol, but the service had, according to experts easily can protect. Mt. Gox faced with ddos attacks and decreasing popularity.
Update, 12.00 pm: According to The Wall Street Journal has Mt. Gox at the request of postponement to let you know that of 750,000 bitcoins from users and 100,000 of its own bitcoins are gone. Thus, the users would, in total, converted to 306 million euros and the fair itself for converted nearly 41 million have been the victim. Would further the fair, debt of total converted 46 million.