Former Mt Gox CEO Mark Karpeles to Launch New Crypto Exchange With a Focus on Transparency

Mark Karpeles, the former CEO of the infamous Mt. Gox exchange, is set to launch a new cryptocurrency exchange named Ellipx later this month. Based in Poland, Ellipx aims to prioritize transparency and compliance with the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation. The platform will initially operate as a crypto-only exchange, with plans to … Read more

Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpelès Assures No Imminent Bitcoin Sale, “Everything Is Fine”

In a social media post, Mark Karpelès, the former CEO of the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox, provided a status update on the recent situation. He assured followers that “everything is fine with MtGox” and revealed that the trustee is currently moving coins to a different wallet in preparation for a distribution that is expected … Read more

Wikipedia Editors List FTX’s Questionable Blunder as the Top Trading Loss of All-Time

Following the collapse of FTX at the beginning of November, two top executives from FTX and Alameda Research — Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison — have been listed among traders with the top trading losses worldwide on Wikipedia. According to the Wiki page, Bankman-Fried’s and Ellison’s so-called ‘trading loss’ of 51 billion nominal U.S. dollars … Read more

Bitcoin Cold Case: The Tale of the Dormant Wallet With Close to 80,000 BTC From Mt Gox

For the last 11 years, a mysterious wallet associated with the Mt Gox scandal has sat dormant holding close to 80,000 bitcoin worth $3.7 billion today. While the wallet was once the sixth-largest address a few years ago, today it’s the ninth-largest wallet in terms of bitcoin held, and the funds have never been spent … Read more

Former Exchange CEO Mark Karpeles Reveals Plans to Airdrop NFTs to Mt Gox Customers

The former CEO of the bankrupt bitcoin exchange Mt Gox, Mark Karpeles, announced he has launched a non-fungible token (NFT) project that will give Mt Gox customers registered between 2010 and 2014 an airdropped NFT. The Mt Gox NFTs are ERC721-compatible tokens that claim to provide “specific use cases.” Former Exchange CEO Announces Commemorative Mt … Read more

$9 Billion in Bitcoin: Court Trustee Says Mt Gox Rehabilitation Plan ‘Final and Binding’

Mt Gox claimants may see restitution soon as a recent filing from the Tokyo District Court’s trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi explains that the rehabilitation plan is now “final and binding.” The document published on Tuesday notes that an announcement will follow that discloses the “details of the specific timing, procedures, and amount of such repayments.” Mt … Read more