The Mt. Gox Rehabilitation Trustee has announced that repayments in bitcoin and bitcoin cash have begun for some creditors. Further repayments will occur once several conditions are met. Mt. Gox has moved significant bitcoin amounts ahead of its planned $9 billion repayment. Bitcoin’s price dropped amid these developments and other market activities.
Mt Gox Initiates Bitcoin Repayments to Creditors
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Mt. Gox Begins Bitcoin Repayments
Mt. Gox’s Rehabilitation Trustee has begun distributing bitcoin and bitcoin cash to certain creditors. In an announcement on Friday, the Trustee stated:
The Rehabilitation Trustee made repayments in bitcoin and bitcoin cash to some of the rehabilitation creditors through a part of the designated cryptocurrency exchanges etc. in accordance with the rehabilitation plan.
The Trustee explained that further repayments will be made promptly once several conditions are met. These include the confirmation of the validity of registered accounts, acceptance of the Agency Receipt Agreement by designated exchanges, completion of discussions between the Trustee and exchanges, and assurance that repayments can be made safely and securely.
The announcement concludes:
We ask eligible rehabilitation creditors to wait for a while.
Prior to the announcement, blockchain intelligence firm Arkham observed that Mt. Gox had transferred 47,228 bitcoins, valued at approximately $2.71 billion at the time, from cold storage to a new wallet. The bankrupt Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange is preparing to repay about $9 billion worth of cryptocurrencies to thousands of users, a move that could potentially increase market selling pressure.
Additionally, the German government sold $175 million in bitcoin earlier on Thursday, though it still holds over 40K BTC following the sale, according to Arkham’s onchain data. These sales by the German government could also exert downward pressure on the price of bitcoin.
On July 5, bitcoin experienced a persistent downtrend across various time frames, with its price currently at $55,575. Over the past 24 hours, BTC’s price fluctuated between $53,550 and $58,673. The cryptocurrency has a market capitalization of $1.08 trillion and a 24-hour trading volume of $54 billion.
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