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Fortress Investment Group has increased its offer to purchase claims from creditors who lost money in the infamous $480 million Mt. Gox hack. The group, which aims to profit by eventually recovering the Bitcoin (BTC), upped its offer on the cryptocurrency to 88% of the estimated account value.CryptoX has
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Mark Karpeles, the former CEO of the now-defunct Bitcoin (BTC) exchange Mt. Gox, is seeking to put an end to litigation filed by a former exchange user back in 2014. In papers filed in a Chicago federal court on Jan. 8, Karpeles contended that he is entitled to summary judgment
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In the countdown to the new year, private equity and hedge fund manager Fortress Investment Group is redoubling its efforts to buy up Bitcoin (BTC) claims from Mt. Gox creditors.A Bloomberg report on Dec. 19 alleged that Fortress’s offer is now roughly 13.5% lower than an initial bid it
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Fortress has reportedly issued a new – and lower – buyout proposal for claims from the creditors of defunct cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox. According to a one-page proposal obtained by Bloomberg, Fortress is offering Mt. Gox creditors 70 percent of their account value. Based on the current price of
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Technically speaking, it’s impossible to destroy bitcoins. But it is possible to send coins to an unspendable address, rendering them redundant to all intents and purposes. In October 2011, that’s
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Russian law firm Zheleznikov and Partners proposed legal action in Russia that should enable its lawyers to recover up to 200,000 Bitcoin (BTC) lost in the Mt. Gox fiasco.Recover losses on behalf of Mt. Gox victimsOn Sept. 12 in a Q&A with Andy Pag, a former BBC journalist, the
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No one remembers the first Mt. Gox hack. It was a small sum, even by 2011’s standards, and the exchange reimbursed all users. The incident was to prove significant, however,
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