First of all, I never had more cash/btc in MtGox than I could afford to lose.. So don't make that an issue please. However. it would always be nice to get it or a part of it back.
If anyone visits mtgox.com now, they will notice that there's a note of bankruptcy claim.
It says that claims can be filed until Nov 28 2014.
Now - there's only one address in there for some Nobuaki lawyer guy.
Now - I have already verified with MtGox, and MtGox knows my balance.
Why on earth should I verify again (Ie. sending copies of identity papers to some unknown lawyers in Tokyo, for all I know it can be an extension of this scam). Of course I can do some research on this, but it's hardly worth my time and effort to spend too much time on it.
In this day and age, why on earth could they not even list an e-mail address? Do we really have to send physical envelopes to Tokyo with out claims ?
And no word about how much is expected to be paid back. It's said there will be a meeting July this year to establish how much funds they have left, and then investigation of claims will not start until Feb 2015. God grief.
Is the law system always this slow?
Can't somone be authorized to fix the whole mess up? Someone the community trusts, then whatever is left can be paid back to the customers, and then the whole site just goes offline and buried permanently?
And whatever happened to the bitcoins and the cash? Afaik millions of dollars were unnaccounted for in cash as well as the missing bitcoins, and it should be easy enough to follow the trails of the dollars, and the bitcoins should be possible to find out about where went as well, both with technical help and investigation by police, questioning the Mtgox bunch, Mark and Gay primarily. Are both of these men still free men, not jailed? I cannot understand that.
So... What amount of papers are needed to file a claim? I did take screenshots of my account - but anyone can fake a screenshot. Will the amounts be checked against MtGox balances, if not, anyone can send in any sort of claim, claiming to holding a large balance with MtGox.
And to my understanding, there was a huge number of account holders at MtGox, and handling every case manually for one or two persons will probably take forever, esp. if there's supposed to be claims and paperwork for every customer as well.
Some automated solution, where a reclaim system is built and all legitimate account holders can log in and create a withdrawal address which will eventually receive a percentage of what can be paid out seems to be the only reasonable way to handle it. I prefer it not being made by Mark (no kidding.
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If everybody is to send an envelope with papers to that lawyer, it's going to become a fucking mountain.
Anyone know anything more?
- What should a claim contain?
- Where should it be sent?
- Any way of contacting the lawyers digitally?
In this time and age, I can't believe such inefficiency exists. It's already established that atleast 200K BTC is recovered, and if the rest cannot be found, it should be quite possible to find out what happened to it.
Why is this not happening, and for christ sake, is the lawyer appointed even knowledgeable enough to handle this particular experts, is he going to hire expensive IT consultants to to the 'claim'-work? How much will eventually be left after all administrative costs have been paid?
What a mess!
