MtGox Files for Bankruptcy

[tom982]

(Reuters) - Mt. Gox, once the world's biggest bitcoin exchange, filed for bankruptcy protection in Japan on Friday, saying it may have lost nearly half a billion dollars worth of the virtual coins due to hacking into its faulty computer system.

The collapse caps a tumultuous few weeks in which the company has remained virtually silent after halting trades of the crypto-currency, shaking the nascent but burgeoning bitcoin community.

Source: Mt. Gox files for bankruptcy, blames hackers for losses | Reuters

That's a grand total of just under 2BTC I've lost now: I had 1.2BTC saved on the BitClockers website when they shut up shop last year and kept everyone's bitcoins, and now I've just lost the 0.8 I had in MtGox. It serves me right for not learning my lesson the first time... :banghead: