Outrage at Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox Expenses as Creditors Prepare to Fly to Japan
Mt. Gox creditors were outraged to learn from newly released court documents that Mt. Gox, once the largest bitcoin exchange and now in liquidation, paid, in May 2014, Tibanne, the parent company of Mt. Gox, $200,000 for services rendered. More shockingly, out of approximately $30 million Mt. Gox claimed on the 28th of February 2014 it still holds, only $7 million remain. It is not known what happened to these creditor's funds of $20 million while Mt. Gox was under the supervision of the Liquidator and the Japanese Court. If they have been spent, this translates to incredible expenses of....
Related News
The MT Gox saga is quickly becoming a distant memory, but as a second creditors meeting nears, voices are being raised and calls for resignations are starting to be made as creditors begin to lose patience. At the heart of the mystery is the alleged disappearance of - initially - 850,000 bitcoins. In an intriguing twists of events, only 10 days after declaring bankruptcy, MT Gox mysteriously found 200,000 bitcoins in an old format wallet, still leaving a huge black whole of hundreds of millions of dollars in unaccounted bitcoins to the tune of 650,000. Even more mysteriously, approximately....
The creditors wrote that the employees are "already well-compensated" while its creditors struggle to pay their expenses. Voyager Digital Holdings’ committee of unsecured creditors has filed a motion to object to the firm's proposal to keep its employees by paying them monetary awards for staying in the company. On August 2, Voyager Digital filed a motion to the United States Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York to approve the Key Employee Retention Plan (KERP) that aims to distribute $1.9 million to 38 key employees who were deemed to be very crucial to the operations of....
Mt Gox creditors have been issued new information concerning their claims and it seems they now have until January 10, 2023 (Japan time) to register for a repayment method. The latest notice says that any creditors that wish to receive payment, must finish the “selection and registration” section on the system platform by the deadline. Furthermore, the crypto exchange Bitstamp has revealed it is one of the selected exchanges chosen by the court trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi. Mt Gox Creditors Have Been Given a Deadline to Register With a Selected Exchange Roughly 38 days ago, the....
One name that crops up whenever recovery plans for Mt. Gox are mentioned is one of China's largest bitcoin exchanges, OKCoin. That's probably for a good reason. On an as-yet-unofficial basis, the company is known to be interested in backing its own team in Japan to put Gox back on its feet and take some steps towards making creditors whole. OKCoin CEO Star Xu told CoinDesk during a recent interview in Beijing that the idea had been suggested to him by some Japan-based friends, and that he personally thought resurrecting the once-dominant exchange and attempting to return its customers'....
“I just want my coins back. I'm tired of how long and drawn out it is," said one user claiming to be one of the 24,000 Mt. Gox creditors. Creditors from the now-defunct crypto exchange Mt. Gox have until Friday Japan time to vote on a rehabilitation plan that could pay back millions in lost Bitcoin (BTC).Figures including Blockstream founder Adam Back and former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpelès took to social media this week to remind crypto users of the looming deadline. Claimants representing more than half of the lost value of the Mt. Gox collapse as well as half of all creditors must vote for....