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Mt. Gox Bankruptcy: Resolution Could Boost Bitcoin and Crypto

by Brian Sewell
February 16, 2019
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This post analyzes how actions aimed at providing restitution to creditors following the Mt. Gox exchange bankruptcy actually depressed the price of Bitcoin. The resolution of this case represents one of several factors I believe could spark a Bitcoin resurgence this year and support the overall cryptocurrency market.

Mt. Gox Bankruptcy 

Mt. Gox, formerly one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, declared bankruptcy in 2014 after announcing the loss or theft of approximately 850,000 bitcoins (then worth roughly $450 million USD). Some of those tokens have since been recovered.

According to one estimate, the Gox trustee still controls 137,891 units of BTC, worth approximately half a billion USD at this writing.

Mt. Gox Trustee Accused of Dumping BTC

Goxdox, an anonymous entity that analyzes the Mt. Gox bankruptcy proceedings, recently leaked bank statements suggesting that Mt. Gox trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi artificially depressed the price of Bitcoin in the winter and spring of 2018. In an effort to raise cash to compensate Mt. Gox creditors, concludes Goxdox, the trustee dumped about $312 million USD of Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash onto the market.

Kobayashi conducted the liquidation as part of investor restitution efforts. But the trustee was advised to liquidate the Mt. Gox positions in an auction or with an OTC broker, to avoid market disruption, according to Goxdox. Kobayashi instead sold the positions on a weekly basis through a Japanese exchange, Bitpoint.

Goxdox concludes that this action artificially depressed the price of Bitcoin in the spring of 2018, and possibly earlier. For example, while BTC rallied past $9,900 by May 5th, according to Goxdox, Kobayashi’s sales led Bitcoin to fall to $7,500 by June 5th. The consequent negative market sentiment caused BTC to sink even farther, claims Goxdox, to $6,200.

Mass BTC Liquidations Appear Over

The good news for the Bitcoin market is two-fold: first, Goxdox appears to have identified an artificial, temporary factor that weighed down the price of Bitcoin last year. These insights provide new transparency, which may help support investor sentiment. Second, the drag on the market caused by these sales seems to have ended. The Mt. Gox restitution status was switched in June from a bankruptcy process to “civil rehabilitation.” In Japan, this process will allow creditors to receive restitution in assets, in this case, Bitcoin, rather than in a fiat currency. In essence, there seems no further reason for the trustee to liquidate mass quantities of Bitcoin.

Outstanding Issues

Granted, there’s more to the Gox case than mass Bitcoin sales. A series of unexpected twists make the Mt. Gox case resemble a soap opera more than a bankruptcy proceeding. But as the case winds down, it’s unlikely that even a new turn of events will impact the price of Bitcoin as negatively as the mass liquidations did.

The following outstanding issues could resolve this year, which could further support investor confidence:

  • Entrepreneur Brock Pierce claims that he acquired Mt. Gox in 2014, and wishes to reopen the exchange, paying the creditors using the equity of the company. But Mark Karpeles, the defunct exchange’s former CEO, refutes that Pierce ever bought the firm.
  • Karpeles himself has filed a plea of not guilty in his Tokyo trial, where he is accused of embezzling approximately 340 million yen (over $3 million) from the exchange and fraudulently manipulating Mt. Gox data. A verdict is expected on March 15th.
  • Bitcoin business incubator CoinLab has reportedly filed a 1.7 trillion JPY ($16 billion) claim against Mt. Gox concerning a failed partnership of the two entities. This suit could slow, or potentially disrupt, the restitution process to Mt. Gox creditors. But it may also become dismissed, since the restitution claim seems quite high.

Resolving Mt. Gox. Can Help Restore Investor Confidence

The Goxdox analysis represents  a step toward restoring investor confidence in Bitcoin, since it identifies a temporary factor that artificially depressed the price of the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.

Seventy nine percent of financial advisors who were surveyed said they received questions from clients on crypto in 2018, according to a poll by Bitwise Asset Management. Clear signals this year that the Mt. Gox restitution case is reaching a conclusion could help turn interest in cryptocurrency into investment.


Brian Sewell is Founder of Zion Trades, www.ziontrades.com, a cryptocurrency trading platform.

This material is provided only for general educational purposes and is not investment, legal, tax or professional advice or an offer to buy or sell any assets. Opinions provided herein are exclusively those personal opinions of the author and should not be relied upon in making decisions regarding cryptocurrencies. This material may be inaccurate and there is no requirement that the author update this content or correct it at any time.

 

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