I don't understand why the 20 percent number is being thrown around.
I understand 200k bitcoins is 20 percent of the bitcoins they had, but what about all their equipment, bank accounts, etc.
Is there a reason that those items are not being factored into the total amount people receive?
Where do you get that 200k is 20% of the Bitcoins that MtGox had? Is it the same source that claimed to loose 850k Bitcoin due to a malleability bug?
I didn't mean that was all they lost, just when I posted this 200k bitcoins was the claimed physical amount of bitcoins they held (from the wallet discovery), and people were claiming that there would be some weird arrangement where creditors would receive 20 percent of their current btc or something....... hence, why I started this thread because, none of this made any sense to me.
This thread, and current updates has cleared that up for me.
My point is that ALL of this is pure speculation. 850k lost Bitcoin = speculation based on MtGox comments. 200k Bitcoin found = speculation based on MtGox comments. Missing Bitcoin belongs to customers = speculation based on user comments. How do we even know that any of this is real? At this stage, the one thing that remains clear to each MtGox user is the fact that they can no longer trade, and that their funds are tied up somewhere.
With that said, these all seem like reasonable numbers. I do find it curious that 200k of 850k Bitcoin were found. That leaves 650k Bitcoin missing. Just above the 600k Bitcoin that the FBI was seeking to, but never did, gain control.