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  • TOKYO, JAPAN - JUNE 05: In this photo illustration visual representations of the digital currency Bitcoin are seen on June 5, 2019 in Tokyo, Japan. Former Mt. Gox Chief Executive Officer Mark Karpeles held a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan today. Mt. Gox, once the world largest cryptocurrency exchange, collapsed in 2014 after the hacking of 650,000 bitcoins. Karpeles was arrested in 2015 and held for 11 months without bail on three criminal charges. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)

    Mt. Gox exchange users may finally get to recover some of their lost Bitcoin

    by 
    Steve Dent
    Steve Dent
    01.18.2021

    An agreement between Mt. Gox’s bankruptcy trustee and another group might allow creditors to recover as much as 90 percent of the remaining Bitcoins.

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    Startups seek to de-anonymize Bitcoin to fight crime

    by 
    Daniel Cooper
    Daniel Cooper
    07.06.2016

    Startups in the UK and US are claiming that they're able to strip Bitcoin users of some of their anonymity to fight online crime. Reuters is reporting that London-based company Elliptic has teamed up with the Internet Watch Foundation to stop the cryptocurrency being used to buy child pornography. The IWF is supplying Elliptic with Bitcoin addresses which are believed to be involved with online child abuse. The startup, which monitors transactions at some of the US and Europe's biggest exchanges, will check future purchases against this list. If any of the suspect addresses are found to match, Elliptic will raise the alarm to partners as well as law enforcement agencies.