Morning Scan: What Mt. Gox Means for Bitcoin; JPM's Cautious Ou...

02/26/14

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On Mt. Gox: The apparent collapse of big Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has reignited concerns about the digital currency. Japan's government, for instance, is now looking into regulating Bitcoin, though officials are not offering any specifics as to how. Some pundits are arguing, amid crashing Bitcoin prices, that Gox has sounded the cryptocurrency's death knell given that the reported theft of 744,000 bitcoins is likely to preclude prospective and even current users...

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