The news - on coin desk and such - make it sound as if there is an international coalition of Mt. Gox. victims who thinks this taking over is best for them.
And as usual Coindesk is totally uncritical.
But perhaps a couple of biggest holders want to divide these 200,000 BTC among them, at the cost of smaller holders like you ...
Right. According to some rumors, one of the largest accounts in the leaked MtGOX database was Mark's. Will he get his share of the 200'000 too? (in a liquidation, the owners have the lowest priority.) According to those rumors, other large accounts belonged to close friends of Mark.
By the way, no one knows who leaked that database and whether it is true. It may have been doctored with the intent of stealing a large part of the remaining coins.
Suppose for example that the sum of all BTC account balances was actually 400'000, and the database was altered by adding another 400'000 to the accounts of certain clients, bringing the total to 800'000 BTC. If the remaining 200 000 BTC were distributed according to the true database, each ordinary client would get 50% of his balance. With the faked database, he will get only 25% of his balance, while those special clients would get to split 100'000 BTC that were never theirs.
The only hope to get the truth is through a police investigation. If Sunlot takes over, no one will ever know what really happened inside MtGOX, and no one will know whether the payments (if any) were fair.
(I actually don't care about whether the clients will lose those 200'000 BTC too to "MtGOX 2.0", but like any sane person I get very upset when I learn that scammers and thieves got away, free and rich.)
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OK, O probably did not phrase it well - but US court (based in Chicago, iirc) - agreed preliminarily to this proposal and lawyers representing some US customers joined with some lawyers representing "internationals" to try to convince Japanese courts.
Yeah, friends of Mark's hypothesis make sense - all simply well connected and very wealthy bitcoiners. ASAIK the list is (mostly) legit, when it was published many people on reddit confirmed their holdings. But you are right that few accounts could have inflated amount of holding. And taking into account lack of any proper accounting at Gox - and them publicly admitting to processing transactions manually because it is faster
- it is probably possible to fake such holdings. Although true computer experts - who would look at the date of making records, deleted data on drives etc should be able to figure out the truth. If they seized Gox computers in time, that is - before the crucial hard drives went physically missing...
. The other is just generic, although the correspondence is quite funny.
