Exchange Mt. Gox has declared itself bankrupt

The other day the news was published on Habré that the largest (once) virtual currency exchange Mt. Gox stopped all operations. Today, an exchange lawyer representing the interests of Mt. Gox, declared bankruptcy of the company.

Currently, the debt of this exchange to its users is 63.6 million US dollars. It is worth noting that the operations were discontinued in early February, and this week, on Tuesday, the exchange stopped working, removing content and contact information from the site.
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Of course, all this could not but affect the Bitcoin cryptocurrency rate - the rate fell (but, as suggested in the comments, not very much). On Mt. Gox, after all these problems started, the Bitcoin rate has declined almost 10 times since the beginning of the year (the peak value is $ 1200 per cryptocurrency unit).

Problems with the exchange began from the moment the document was published about the possible theft of cryptocurrency. According to Ryan Selkis, the “virtual currency maker”, in a few years about 750 thousand bitcoins could have been stolen from the exchange.

The bankruptcy procedure was initiated to protect the company from creditors, some of whom are currently spending days and nights at the exchange office, demanding their money.

Via reuters + vedomosti