“When this all happened I hated Mark, but now I don’t because I understand a lot more about what went on.” — Daniel Kelman
Interview location: Skype
Interview date: Tuesday 12th Feb, 2019
Company: OceanEx
Role: Chief Strategy Officer
The victims of Mt. Gox are the creditors, those who lost their Crypto BTC when the company entered into bankruptcy arrangements. For years they have battled for a fair civil rehabilitation plan and suffered delay after delay.
Under Japanese law, the creditors were due the Yen value off their holding at the date of bankruptcy, to be paid out from the 200,000 Crypto BTCs which were found by Mark Karpeles after first suspecting all the Crypto BTC were gone.
The process of rehabilitation has been held up by the lawsuit from Peter Vessenes from Coinlab, and during the wait, the price of Crypto BTC has risen sharply. Under Japanese law, after creditors have been paid, the remaining value in the company is due to the shareholders, this being Mark Karpeles (88%) and Jed McCaleb (12%), which would have made Mark a billionaire.
To their credit, neither Mark nor Jed wants to receive this money, and the creditors have fought to have the remaining Crypto BTC redistributed to them. In this interview, I walk with the lawyer, Daniel Kelman, the architect of the civil rehabilitation plan for Mt.Gox creditors. We discuss this as well as the claims from Brock Pierce and Peter Vessenes.
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Published at Wed, 20 Feb 2019 18:06:00 +0000
