Early this morning, Mt. Gox officially filed for bankruptcy protection in Tokyo, Japan, confirming reports that the company had lost 750,000 bitcoins—with a current estimated value of roughly $477 million—were lost. According to CEO Mark Karpeles…
After yesterday’s news of the shutdown of Mt. Gox—formerly one of the largest bitcoin exchanges in the world, and certainly still the most famous (or infamous)—people have been watching and waiting for any signs of life at the Tokyo-based company…