(Tokyo) - Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox said Friday it was filing for bankruptcy protection after losing almost 750,000 of its customers' bitcoins, marking the collapse of a marketplace that once dominated trading in the virtual currency. Mt. Gox said it also lost around 100,000 of its own bitcoins. Together, the lost would be worth $473 mil. at market prices. Bitcoin is slowly becoming a bigger part of porn site operations this year.
Posted 2/28/14
