Are repayment delays doing Mt. Gox creditors a favor?
Mt. Gox has pushed back its bitcoin (BTC) repayments deadline yet again, extending the wait for some creditors to more than a decade after the exchange’s collapse. The latest postponement is the third year in a row that the Rehabilitation Trustee has kept creditors waiting. They now have a new deadline of October 31, 2026. As to why these repayments won’t be carried out on time, the notice explains that “many rehabilitation creditors… have not completed the necessary procedures.” It adds, rather unhelpfully, that others’ delays are “due to various reasons, such as issues arising during the Repayments process.” But looking at BTC’s price chart over that time, the Rehabilitation Trustee may actually be doing creditors a favor . Read more: Mt. Gox to start creditor repayments next month, asks users to ‘wait a while’ Repay or delay? Creditors approved a rehabilitation plan on October 20, 2021. At the time, BTC was at around $65,000 on its way to the ...