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> at MtGox they 'lost' wel over a million BTC.

The initial report was 850 000 lost BTC which later was brought down to 650 000. Scroll to the end of https://www.mtgox.com/img/pdf/20140320-btc-announce.pdf

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Before/after the 850k/650k hack there were numerous other hacks, the total number of stolen BTC is still not clear, new proof of other hacks is still being discovered.

Apparently Karpeles also found a 'forgotten' wallet of 200k BTC, which he still seems to own. It's a mess.

No, the found wallet is under the control of the trustee overseeing the bankruptcy of MtGox. We know this for certain because he sold 35,000BTC when BTC was around 10,000USD, ensuring the creditors will get their full investment back.

Doesn't make us whole of course, but it is nice.

I lost some 2010 BTC (trading at ~$30) in the MtGox failure, and then missed the window to make a claim. Harsh.

But it was trading at around $600 during the MtGox meltdown. Are you thinking of the first MtGox crash (June 2011) that they recovered from?

I think he means he bought them when they where $30, so he would have made some nice gains.

Tinco is correct, I bought before the MtGox crash at around $30 but used them as my exchange to do the trade, and never pulled them into a wallet.

Did you miss the second claim window as well? We got the trustee to change the bankruptcy format, and it reopened the claim window until I think November. Did you not get any emails about the claims?

Everything I used to buy the BTC was anonymized (cash deposit, throwaway email address). I have all my MtGox login information but can't access the email address I used to verify anything. Any way I can still file a claim?

I think you're too late, but you can make an account here and ask: forum.mtgoxlegal.com

It's a forum organized by creditors who together pay for a lawyer and an activist to represent us in the bankruptcy.

What a beautiful swindle. People who got creamed in the MtGox pyramid collapse where made almost whole by a next generation of suckers who lost 65% of their BTC's value in the bubble.

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