The chief executive of Japan's Mt. Gox, once the world's leading bitcoin exchange, was ordered to the U.S. to answer questions related to its U.S. bankruptcy case, filed after the company lost $400 million of customers' digital currency, Reuters reported yesterday. Bankruptcy Judge Stacey Jernigan yesterday ordered Mt. Gox CEO and majority owner Mark Karpeles to appear on April 17 in Dallas at the offices of Baker & McKenzie, the law firm that represents Mt. Gox. Mt. Gox customers want Karpeles to explain why the exchange shut down in February and what happened to their 750,000 bitcoins, which the company said were stolen in a computer hacking attack.
