TOKYO: The website of Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange Mt.Gox became inaccessible on Tuesday, after the value of the virtual unit sank to about a quarter of that on other platforms and Japanese regulators said they were unable to step in.

Visitors to the www.mtgox.com domain got a blank page when they tried to log on, more than two weeks after the firm suspended cash withdrawals as claims swirled of a bug in the software underpinning bitcoin.

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