Re:Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox taken down for hours by ‘another...
by cjh_ on Sunday April 21, 2013 @06:11PM
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Yes and No.
You are right in that Mt.Gox doesn't handle 80% of all btc-btc trade.
However many use Mt.Gox as their wallet so the TPB analogy doesn't quite hold that far, as Mt.Gox being taken down would mean these people wouldn't have access to their BTC funds stored in that wallet.
I should have mentioned this in my original post, but I was sloppy.
However many use Mt.Gox as their wallet so the TPB analogy doesn't quite hold that far, as Mt.Gox being taken down would mean these people wouldn't have access to their BTC funds stored in that wallet.
I should have mentioned this in my original post, but I was sloppy.