Lesson learned? After Bitcoin’s Mt. Gox meltdown, the real test begins
On Friday, Tokyo-based Bitcoin exchange Mt. Goxfiled for bankruptcy protectionin a Japanese court, after losing about 850,000 Bitcoins (BTC), 750,000 of which belonged to its customers. The loss equals roughly $475 million, at current exchange rates. The failures of Mt. Gox – once the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange, which shut down its site on Monday – has left an untold number of casualties in its wake. Many Mt. Gox users lost hundreds of thousands of dollars....