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Former Mt. Gox CEO Proposes Hard Fork to Recover About 80,000 Stolen BTC

2026/02/28 09:32 (Updated 2026/02/28 14:01)
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Former Mt. Gox CEO Proposes Hard Fork to Recover About 80,000 Stolen BTC

Unprecedented Proposal for Bitcoin Core

In an unprecedented move, Mark Karpelès, the former CEO of the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox (GitHub username: MagicalTux), submitted a proposal for a Bitcoin (BTC) hard fork on the 28th. This proposal, aimed at recovering 79,956 BTC (worth approximately 818 billion yen), was submitted as pull request (PR #34695) to the Bitcoin Core repository on GitHub...

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