Alguien se quedó pillado en Mt. Gox??
Parece que han encontrado un wallet con 202.185 Btc que a precio actual, hace que Mt. Gox tenga más activos que pasivo, por lo que están pidiendo que salga de la situación legal de quiebra.
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Bitcoin surge prompts legal bid to remove Mt Gox from bankruptcy
Creditors say 40-fold rise in value means exchange’s assets now dwarf its liabilities
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The Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Mt Gox, which imploded amid scandal nearly four years ago, should be allowed to emerge from bankruptcy now that its bitcoins have rocketed in value to more than $3bn, a group of creditors has urged a Tokyo court.
The legal challenge demands that Mt Gox, once the world’s most dominant platform for trading and storing bitcoin before it was shut in February 2014, disburse its newly-found riches to its old depositors amid antiestéticars that bitcoin’s recent rise would allow its disgraced former chief executive to emerge from the debacle as a multibillionaire.
The liquidation of Mt Gox’s assets was begun years ago, when the cryptocurrency was trading at just a fraction of its current price of ¥2m ($17,600). Creditors argue that the 40-fold price surge since the exchange’s collapse means that the company’s assets now dwarf its liabilities.
Mark Karpelès, the former chief executive currently fighting charges of embezzlement in Tokyo, controls the company that owns almost 90 per cent of Mt Gox.
At the current bitcoin price, Mt Gox could meet all its liabilities and, under Japanese law, Mr Karpelès would then receive his share of the surplus, a theoretical fortune worth well in excess of $2bn.
In their petition filed this month, at least four major creditors are asking the court to consider moving the exchange from bankruptcy into civil rehabilitation.
That change of status would miccionan that Mt Gox’s bitcoin assets would not have to be sold but could instead be fully distributed, on a pro-ardilla basis, among claimants.
The court is investigating the merits of the petition for rehabilitation. The creditors bringing the case say the outcome is likely to come down to a “battle of experts”: those working for the bankruptcy trustee, who argue that the current liquidation plan is more stable, and those hired by the creditors, who say that their solution is quicker and fairer.
Mt Gox collapsed after 850,000 of its own and its customers’ bitcoins disappeared from the company’s digital vaults. The loss was judged by some investigators to have been a cyber heist, but it remains unsolved and pummelled bitcoin prices at the time.
A stash of 202,185 bitcoins, now worth about ¥390bn ($3.4bn), was subsequently discovered in one of Mt Gox’s digital “wallets” and, as its value has surged ever higher, has become the obsession of creditors desperate to claw back what they believe they are owed.
Under the terms of the court-ordered Mt Gox liquidation, about 25,000 former depositors who filed claims will eventually receive their portion of the overall payout, either in cash or bitcoin, at an exchange rate of about ¥50,000 ($440) per bitcoin.
That is the market price set, in accordance with Japanese law, at the time the bankruptcy proceedings began in April 2014.
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Creditors involved in bringing the new lawsuit identify the low 2014 valuation as a prime source of injustice.
The trustee in charge of the Mt Gox bankruptcy has recognised a total of about ¥58bn worth of claims and liabilities — about ¥46bn in bitcoin priced at the 2014 rate, and the remainder representing yen or dollar cash that had been sitting in customers’ accounts.
If the bitcoin is revalued and does not drive down prices if they were sold in the current market, those liabilities could be paid off with about 29,000 bitcoins.
That would theoretically leave more than 173,000 coins for Mt Gox’s shareholders, primarily Mr Karpelès.
Mr Karpelès, who denies wrongdoing in the embezzlement case, has previously questioned whether such a fortune would ever, in fact, materialise for him given the way that liquidations normally proceed.
Creditors have also suggested that any massive shift of bitcoin wealth to Mr Karpelès would make him the target of a large number of civil lawsuits from former customers.
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