MT.Gox Announcement

March 20, 2014

To everyone concerned

Mark Karpeles

Representative Director

MtGox Co., Ltd.

We inform you as follows with regard to the balance of bitcoins (BTC) held by MtGox Co., Ltd.

1. MtGox Co., Ltd. had certain old­format wallets which were used in the past and which, MtGox thought, no longer held any bitcoins. Following the application for commencement of a civil rehabilitation proceeding, these wallets were rescanned and their balance researched. On March 7, 2014, MtGox Co., Ltd. confirmed that an old­format wallet which was used prior to June 2011 held a balance of approximately 200,000 BTC (199,999.99 BTC). MtGox Co., Ltd. investigated the presence of these 200,000 BTC, immediately reported it to its counsels in the application for commencement of a civil rehabilitation proceedings ("counsels"). A hearing took place on March 8 where a detailed 

explanation of the situation was made to counsels. Immediately on Monday (March 10), counsels reported the existence of the 200,000 BTC to the Court and the Supervisor.

2. For security reasons, the 200,000 BTC which were at first on the 7th moved to online wallets were moved between the 14th and the 15

th to offline wallets. These bitcoin movements (including the change in the manner in which these bitcoins were stored) has been reported to the Court and the Supervisor by counsels.

Further, the bitcoins held today by MtGox Co., Ltd. amount to a total of approximately 202,000 BTC, including the above 200,000 BTC and the approximately 2,000 BTC which existed prior to the application for commencement of a civil rehabilitation proceeding.

3. MtGox Co., Ltd. had previously reported about the disappearance of bitcoins which had triggered this application for commencement of a civil rehabilitation proceeding that MtGox Co., Ltd. had lost almost all of the approximately 850,000 bitcoins it held (approximately 750,000 BTC corresponding to the balance of bitcoins belonging from users as seen from transaction records as well as approximately 100,000 BTC belonging to MtGox). Taking into account the existence of the 200,000 BTC, the total number of bitcoins which have disappeared is therefore estimated to be approximately 650,000 BTC. (Please note that the reasons for their disappearance and the exact number of bitcoins which disappeared is still under investigation and that the above figures may still change depending  on the results of the investigation.)

Comment by bit-sky: This announcement is a clear proof of conspiracy theory I predicted before. The day before yesterday, MT resumed user’s login in, since that time, MT event turned around, the end of the story might be a happy ending.

1. The thing in the announcement occurred two weeks before. Why they release this news two weeks later? During these two weeks, they must be doing something behind the scenes.

 

2. 200,000 coins before 2011 cannot be found? That’s impossible! That’s 200,000 coins! only in a few accounts. Mark is a professional liar anyway, thick skinned enough, so shameless, there is nothing we can do about it.

see my analysis in Feburary here:

http://www.bit-sky.com/index.php/english/415-consiracy-point-of-view-mt-gox-will-resume-bitcoin-withdrawal

http://www.bit-sky.com/index.php/english/391-further-analysis-on-mt-conspiracy