I was thinking about MTGox's 200,000 Bitcoins they found in that old wallet or whatever it is. At some point the bankruptcy is going to sell those coins and dump them on the market in one big go turning them into FIAT. There is no way I see them distributing out those coins as Bitcoins. What will that do to the market? If they released all 200,000+ coins at one time? Seems to me that's exactly what they are going to do.
Why would they dump them?
I expect them to sell these coins for the highest potential value.
Meaning mostly off-exchange and slowly over time.
why would they care about the price they get
they are selling it, only to redistribute to other people, they dont care about other people....
i think they will just have mark send the BTC, it will be the cheapest solution for them
Every court will have its own outlined procedure for this kind of idea to liquidate assets.
Likely they have a goal to achieve as much as they can within the timeline parameters, which may mean breaking the total into chunks (if it is believed that breaking into chunks would achieve a higher return), but likely the process would allow for bids rather than dumping on the exchange.
They certainly do NOT seem to care about the good of the various customers or what may be best for bitcoin - b/c fairly quickly, they rejected the non-liquidation option to allow the take over of GOX by competent financial people.
The various vested interests, including customers and other stake holders have opportunities to attempt to persuade the court with submissions of persuasive arguments. Who knows whether the court will chose to deviate from any of its standard procedures and make exceptions regarding how to liquidate b/c in the court's view this case could require some exceptional procedure(s).