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I hope you are all having a good day, welcome to CryptoGod-1's blog on all things crypto. In this post I will be looking at the recent news of Mt. Gox repayments beginning in July of this year.
Mt. Gox Repayments
The defunct Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox noted on Monday the 24th of June 2024 that it will begin to distribute assets stolen from clients in a 2014 hack. The repayments will commence in the first week of July, and sees clients finally getting progress after years of continued delays and moved deadlines. Back in 2018, approximately 200,000 Bitcoins were recovered, and this initiated a lengthy rehabilitation process under the oversight of a court-appointed trustee. Creditors have been awaiting compensation, and trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi noted in a Monday statement:
“The Rehabilitation Trustee has been preparing to make repayments in Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash under the Rehabilitation Plan. The repayments will be made from the beginning of July 2024."
Many of the repayments are considered likely to add selling pressure to Bitcoin, which will see early investors receive assets at a much higher value than their entries before 2013. Many could be inclined to sell at least a part of their holdings once they are returned. The repayments will be made in both Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash. Back in the early days of Bitcoin, Mt. Gox was considered one of the world’s top crypto exchanges. It handled over 70% of all bitcoin transactions in its early years, but in early 2014 hackers attacked the exchange and this resulted in the loss of an estimated 740,000 bitcoin ($15 billion at current prices). It was one of the biggest hacks on the exchange during the years 2010-2013.
A group of trustees have put together the repayment plan, which has been in the works for several years. They recieved a deadline of October 2024 from a Tokyo court last year, and back in May the exchange moved over 140,000 BTC, worth around $9 billion, from cold wallets to an unknown address across 13 transactions.
The distribution will aim to compensate the users who lost their funds during the collapse, although the exact details of the repayment plan, including the proportion of assets to be distributed and the timeline for completion are yet to be confirmed. Many in the crypto community will be eagerly watching to see the impact the repayment will have on the overall market.
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