Customers of Mt. Gox, once the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange, are closer to getting back at least some of the money they lost this year when it shut down and announced that their funds had gone missing, New York Times DealBook reported today. The bankruptcy trustee for Mt. Gox, which is based in Tokyo, announced today that it would work with a California-based Bitcoin exchange, Kraken, to return the money left in the estate to the company’s 127,000 creditors. Jesse Powell, Kraken’s chief executive, said that his company would help with the claims process, including evaluating the assets owed to creditors, and that it would assist in the investigation of Mt. Gox’s collapse. He said that the trustee would have the final decision on payments in Bitcoin.
