Looks like Mt Gox distributions might be beginning. Short term who knows but long term this is good for Bitcoin. Just another piece of FUD that will be conquered.
It is my understanding that the two largest creditors are riding it out until all the bankruptcy proceedings are done which could take a few more years.
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Great resources to learn more. Thanks Darth.
How many coins are they going to be moving?
I remember they made a bunch of coins magically disappear, did they find them? lol
wow....2.94 billion dollars worth!
They lost 800,000 in the hack. They currently have 137,000 coins to distribute.
I guess the price of each coin has risen quite a bit.
Are they able to cover all of their losses?
I think the claimants will have done well at least in fiat terms even though they won’t get all their bitcoin back.
Thats better than nothing.
But more than 600,000 Bitcoins were actually lost, so the ones who really gained are Mt.Gox, I don't think there was any hack, to tell the truth, rather a "self-hack"
I believe in the malleability attack story. That vulnerability was real and necessitated the SegWit soft fork.
Im not saying it is right.
It just worked out for them that the value of each bitcoin went up, so they were able to replace everyones fiat...and maybe a little gain.
Wouldnt the situation be worse if they werent able to give anything back?
The price of bitcoin in 2014 was between 400 and 800$ more or less, so the investment has multiplied x100 or so, they are returning 1/4 of the bitcoins, so in terms of fiat, everyone is winning.
I wonder if the claimants will get only the monetary value (or a percentage) of the coins owned at the time of the event. I doubt they will get back BTC, more likely the monetary value in $. Maybe I'm wrong?
I believe they get the BTC unless they opted for early resolution.
I wish they do. It's disclaimed somewhere? or maybe they will do a mix between USD and BTC?
It will be a mix of BTC, BCH and JPY
Ref.: https://blog.wizsec.jp/2021/02/mtgox-claim-calculator.html
that's super useful! Thanks
Yes, thanks.
Holy Shit it is FINALLY going to happen... I remember reading about Mt. Gox years ago I can't believe it still hasn't been settled.
Yes, this have been a long drawn out process. It looks like all the MT Gox coins moved last night and then again this morning so distributions probably happening. Gotta make sure you don't fat figure those addresses when moving 30,000 plus coins at a time. Haha
I remember some years ago that I got an email in Japanese (I thought it was Chinese, I was wrong) on an old email address that I don't use anymore.
I wanted to discard it as a SPAM mail, but it turned out to come from the Mt Gox lawyers who wanted to know if/how much they owe me.
Are they going to be compensated for the amount of BTC they had or the value in fiat at the time of the loss?
BTC. But they are only recovering a small portion of what they had on Mt Gox originally. Fortunately for claimants BTC price has gone up a lot since 2014.
Hanging on for a decade man that must be nuts, so most people are likley down bad on their bitcoin position, but up crazy on their fiat position, so my question is how many are going to dump?
Can we get 58k gang again?