Mark Karpeles CEO of Mt. Gox: I do not want this billion

Four years ago, Mark Karpeles, CEO of Mt. Gox was charged with the disappearance of 850.000 Bitcoin. The controversial Chief Executive Officer of Mt. Gox has decided to apologize for his mistakes.
Mark Karpeles
In one session AMA (from Ask Me Anything) at Reddit, Mark Karpeles tried to address some of the accusations he accuses him of how he handled Mt's bankruptcy. Gox.

Below are some of his most interesting answers:

I did my best and tried to develop the system, running the biggest exchange at the time. He had big ones , but we didn't stay there. For a while. In the end, the methods I chose to try to get Mt. Gox, they ended up being inadequate, or just plain wrong.

I know I did not handle the last, stressful days of Gox properly. I can only regret what happened.

The Mt. Gox started operating in 2010 at of Japan, and was one of the first major exchanges in the world. By 2014, Mt. Gox was handling 70% of all Bitcoin transactions worldwide when it filed for bankruptcy due to lack of a large amount of BTC.

Karpeles was of course accused by all elying since he appeared to gain a huge fortune from the bankruptcy. Japanese bankruptcy laws state that creditor claims are recorded at the value of the Japanese yen on the date of bankruptcy and not in BTC.

With the rise of the BTC price from 2014 to date, even if all the debts are paid, they will still remain above 160.000 BTC in Mt. Gox estate, which is responsible for the distribution of debts to shareholders.

Karpeles said:

I do not want this billion dollars. From the first day I never expected to take anything out of this bankruptcy.

On March, mentioned that Mt. Gox sold $400 million worth of cryptocurrencies. At that time there were many people who argued that the specific was the reason for the sharp decline in the price of Bitcoin, according to TNW.

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