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Japan finance minister: Gathering facts on bitcoin, unsure whether crime involved [March 04, 2014] TOKYO (Reuters) — Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Tuesday that the government is still trying to figure out what has led to the collapse of the Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox and is not sure whether crime is involved. |
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"We still have not had a clear grasp of the
situation," Aso said in response to a reporter's question after
a cabinet meeting. "(We) don't know if it was a crime or just a
bankruptcy." Mt. Gox, once the world's biggest bitcoin exchange, filed for
bankruptcy protection in Japan on Friday, saying it may have
lost nearly half a billion dollars worth of the virtual currency
due to hacking into its faulty computer system. (Reporting by Tetsushi Kajimoto; editing by Dominic Lau) [© 2014 Thomson Reuters. All rights reserved.] Copyright 2014 Reuters. All rights reserved. This material may not be published,
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