Mt. Gox History: The Hack, the Collapse and the Long Road to Repayment
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Quick Answer: Mt. Gox was a Tokyo bitcoin exchange that handled most of the world’s bitcoin trading in 2013 and collapsed in February 2014, saying about 850,000 BTC were missing; it later found about 200,000 BTC in an old wallet. Its estate entered civil rehabilitation in 2018, and the court-appointed trustee began repaying creditors in bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) in July 2024. On October 16, 2026, the trustee moved the repayment deadline to October 31, 2027, and wallets attributed to the estate still held about 34,400 BTC as of October 20, according to Arkham Intelligence data cited by…
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