More than three years later, with the price of bitcoin skyrocketing to more than US$7,000 (RM29,150), not a single customer has recouped a single cent, crypto or otherwise. Pictured is Mt. Gox.
TOKYO: When Mt. Gox, the world's largest bitcoin trading exchange, collapsed in early 2014, more than 24,000 customers around the world lost access to hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of cryptocurrency and cash.
More than three years later, with the price of bitcoin skyrocketing to more than US$7,000 (RM29,150), not a single customer has recouped a single cent, crypto or otherwise. It's not clear when they will. The failed exchange has become stuck in a morass of litigation – a Russian doll of bankruptcies in Japan and New Zealand, four in all, plus lawsuits in the United States and competing claims from creditors.
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