Mt. Gox finds 200,000 missing bitcoins in unused wallet

Discovery reduces the number of bitcoins believed stolen in fraudulent withdrawals from 850,000 to 650,000.

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 59 words · Kenneth Garcia

Gox Chief Executive Officer Mark Karpeles said in adocument(PDF) released Thursday.

Gox said it reported the discovery to attorneys on March 8 and moved the newfound bitcoins to offline storage.

Once one of the largest and most popular Bitcoin exchanges, Mt.

Gox servers they said backed up their claims.

Gox claimed to have lost.

Soon afterward,the exchange shut downaltogether.