Mt. Gox Creditors' Meeting Delivers Few Answers and One Apology
Roger Ver speaks to the Japanese media outside court. Today's long-anticipated meeting between Mt. Gox bankruptcy trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi and creditors from the defunct exchange provided several revelations, but left many more questions unanswered. At the Tokyo meeting Kobayashi disclosed he would consider distributing the exchange's remaining funds as bitcoin, not Japan's native yen. He also revealed plans to meet with potential purchasers of Mt. Gox's remaining assets. Over 100 creditors, the large majority of whom were Japanese, filed into the meeting room of Tokyo's District Court to....
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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 4th creditors meeting in Tokyo for the Mt. Gox bankruptcy case wrapped up today with a staggering report of claims. 2,663,398,225,570 JPY which is roughly worth 22 billion dollars was claimed in the report by creditors. The report came from the Tokyo District Court, Collegiate Section of the 20th Civil Division. Breakdowns of the numbers in Bitcoins....
The leading cryptocurrency exchange Kraken and Tokyo’s court-appointed trustee has announced the current status of all Mt Gox claims have been determined. For the first time, thousands of claimants will be able to see if their claim has been accepted and will soon be processed. The Mt Gox Creditors Meeting in Tokyo Determines All Claims. The San Francisco-based Kraken has revealed the news today concerning the long awaited Mt Gox claims. During the creditor’s meeting in Tokyo, Trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi has detailed that over 24 thousand claims were filed. Out of all the claims, a very....
Nearly 25,000 creditors are claiming JPY 2,663,398,225,570 (more than $22 billion USD) from Mt. Gox Co. Ltd., according to bankruptcy trustee attorney Nobuaki Kobayashi. Kobayashi filed a report with the Tokyo District Court, Collegiate Section of the 20th Civil Division. The report summarizes the status of claims against the bankrupt company, along with the status of the investigation into the disappearance of bitcoins from the exchange. The trustee published the report distributed at the fourth credits meeting, according toleaprate.com. Report Lists Assets and Balance Sheet. As of Sept.....