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Bitcoins: between hope and disillusionment, the race to recover a treasure of 2.8 billion euros

2022-09-26T11:41:16.776Z


STORY - The MtGox cryptocurrency exchange platform, which disappeared in 2014, must reimburse former customers whose investments were stolen during a hack. Among them, French.


The case resurfaced in the middle of the summer.

On July 7, former investors of MtGox, in its time considered the most important cryptocurrency exchange platform in the world, saw their hopes reborn.

The service, which disappeared with a crash in 2014 following a hack, taking nearly 650,000 bitcoins in its fall, delivered for the first time a schedule of a refund.

As of September 15, nearly 24,000 injured former customers of the platform can hope to get their hands on their stolen bitcoins.

And share a jackpot of nearly 2.8 billion euros.

Since then, everyone has taken their troubles patiently.

The company has meanwhile announced that it will no longer accept new debt files and the repayment horizon is more uncertain.

But investors keep an asset in their game: despite its…

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Source: lefigaro

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