He looks fabulous now and I actually kind of envy him.
But I am still appalled that the value of BCH+BTG (future)+S2X (future) alone already cover HALF of creditor's claim. So technically he could just give the creditors those forkcoins, but still keep 90% of BTC and made off like a bandit. I wouldn't want to be him if he end up with like 180K BTC in the end.
That would be crazy if any court (even if in Japan) would allow for that level of disparity and seemingly unjust enrichment of a person (Mark) who, at minimum, was very negligent and more likely reckless with carrying out his custodial duties over the coins of others.
Given the considerable and even exponential increase in value of BTC during this calendar year, including issuance of BCH and BTC coins and S2x futures, as you mentioned LP, it would be really nice if the court could figure out a kind of prompt resolution to allow for a 50% reimbursement, or something like that, of everyone who had BTC balances at the time of the GOX closure, even if the rest of the proceedings might be held up or held off in order to possibly consider other distribution matters. The exponential price appreciation of BTC brings a kind of special circumstance that should allow for some quick handing out of justice to help to ameliorate some of the suffering of those folks holding (or claiming) BTC values at that time of the Gox closure... of course, there will still be some screwiness in the distribution, perhaps, because some folks were in the middle of trades, when the surprise shutting off of the site happened..
These are unusual times in BTC that would allow for unusual measures and a kind of prompt partial justice, yet sometimes courts don't seem to be practical in terms of flexible thinking to treat an asset class that they likely do not understand too well and in terms of applying old standards to new asset dynamics.
Anyhow issuing 50% BTC to all outstanding BTC claims, would likely allow for the reimburse everyone of those particular
BTC holding folks well more than 100% (if such a concept is possibly understood) of the then value of their BTC, and possibly the court would not appreciate that kind of outcome either, since they are probably still considering that some of the outstanding BTC claims are NOT valid, perhaps? So, if they are having some trouble with some of the claims, then perhaps, just reward 50% of the BTC value to all of the folks that have claims that are not disputed. By now, you would think that there are likely quite a few of those kinds of undisputed claims, no?