Bitcoin

Bitcoin: Japanese and U.S. authorities look into the debacle MtGox 

 Hundreds of millions of dollars could have evaporated and the legal uncertainty that surrounds the electronic money complicates things .

The large household may begin. While bitcoin facing the most serious crisis with the closure and potential bankruptcy , one of its main trading platforms , the authorities seem determined to get involved. Wednesday, the Japanese authorities investigating the MtGox site with virtual vault could blurt out to $ 400 million due to a flaw exploited in 2011 for three years to duplicate transactions .

In the United States, a New York attorney would in turn issued a summons against the site , which also manages the activities of virtual currency in the United States , according to the Wall Street Journal. legal limbo The problem is that unlike traditional currencies, the bitcoin is not supervised by central banks and international regulations . 

The Japanese authorities have long remained deaf to the crisis in this new area , but they reacted Wednesday for the first time. "The Ministry of Finance, the Financial Services Agency and the police are doing research on this subject to understand the problem as a whole ," said the spokesman of the government, Yoshihide Suga .

 Tokyo seems to react after the wide dissemination of a document on the Internet, presented as a " crisis plan " of MtGox . 

According to this text , whose origin could not be authenticated , the firm would be done via a hacking steal nearly 750,000 bitcoins , 6% of their total number in circulation worldwide . 

This represents approximately $ 440 million during the posted Wednesday by other global platforms that virtual currency.

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