#MtGox钱包动态
The famous Mentougou incident in the B circle
The Mentougou incident coins were stolen 10 years ago, and the stolen assets have increased by about 120 times so far. If all are recovered, there will be a 120-fold increase.
Mentougou is the Chinese translation of MT.GOX, a BTC exchange located in Tokyo, Japan. It started BTC trading as early as 2010. It had few competitors and once became the world's largest BTC exchange, accounting for 80% of the world's trading volume. MT boss has unlimited scenery.
On February 28, 2014, the MT.GOX exchange suddenly announced its closure and filed for bankruptcy. On that day, the BTC price was $580. For a time, there were many different opinions on the Internet. Because it was attacked by hackers, 744,000 bitcoins were stolen, and their whereabouts are still unknown. The exchange insisted that it had stolen the coins and sold them to other trading platforms. Subsequently, the Mentougou exchange closed its official website and announced that the exchange was hacked and lost about 850,000 bitcoins.
The total number of stolen BTC accounted for 7% of the total at that time, of which 750,000 belonged to customers.
In March 2014, the Mentougou Exchange claimed to have found 200,000 Bitcoin users in one wallet after another. The arduous road to rights protection lasted for 10 years, but they could not get back their money or obtain corresponding compensation.
On March 15, 2019, the Tokyo Court of Japan found the head of the cryptocurrency exchange Mentougou, Marcar Fat, guilty and sentenced him to 2.5 years in prison and suspended his sentence for 4 years. Fat was found guilty of tampering with financial records, but he was not accused of embezzlement of public funds. After a lot of investigation, the Tokyo Court made it clear on November 16, 2021 that the repayment plan would be made.
In the compensation plan, creditors will obtain the corresponding value of the combination of yen BCC and BCH assets according to the principle of yen denominated. Since the stolen assets can no longer be recovered in full, the Mentougou Exchange can only compensate about 23.6% of the assets.
In addition, creditors can choose to accept a one-time compensation in advance, but the compensation rate is only 21%. If they do not accept it, creditors will have to wait for a long time, and the final compensation may be more or less.
The creditor received a repayment registration email from MT.GOX on July 6, 2022. A total of 68 MT.GOX and other wallet addresses were found on the chain, with a total balance of 137,890 BTC and 137,890 BCH, about US$3.2 billion.
Compensation Ability Whenever the market is good, news about MP. GOX will emerge, which will be used by capital to suppress prices and cause panic selling.It is like the Damocles thread of the crypto industry, restricting the development of the industry and potentially damaging the entire ecosystem at any time. $BTC
