Victims of the Mt Gox hack could—after several years—be in line for a refund after Nobuaki Kobayashi, the defunct exchange’s Japanese trustee, announced that creditors can now vote on a civil rehabilitation plan.
According to the letter Kobayashi sent to investors on May 31, the Tokyo District Court approved the revised version of the rehabilitation plan, opening the doors to voting on the exact reimbursement mechanism.
“We are pleased to inform you that the online voting function has been released on the online rehabilitation claim filing system,” Kobayashi said in the letter.
What was Mt. Gox?
Once the world’s biggest crypto exchange, Mt. Gox handled over 70% of all transactions on the Bitcoin network at one point. The exchange fell to several hacks—the most recent of which occurred in February 2014, when more than 850,000 BTC were stolen.
Since then, more than 20,000 creditors have filed claims for reimbursements, with bankruptcy lawyer Kobayashi appointed to
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