Mt Gox Files for Bankruptcy Protection in Japan
But if this is true, it will lead to further questions. 'Hot wallets' are online; 'cold wallets' are offline. "Yes, it is easy to steal bitcoins," wrote Brian Hanley in International Policy Digest, Saturday. "In fact, it is trivially easy to do it – if you have access to the drive the bitcoins are stored on. A bitcoin is just an encryption key that is stored on a computer. Now, let’s ask ourselves, who had access to offline data storage that bitcoins were stored on?"