Those kinds of decisions are up to the liquidator.  It's not clear from the leaked documents whether those who received 100% payments received the whole amount from Bitcoinica assets or whether Tihan paid part of their claim personally.  It's also not clear whether those who will become entitled to have their claims treated as preferential (which is a class separate from secured creditors but which ranks higher than unsecured creditors) are going to waive their right to receive 100% of their claim in addition to any costs they've incurred in recovering/protecting assets.  Those creditors might wish to make a statement in respect of that.

It's important to remember that a receiver and a liquidator have different obligations and that it's totally legal (and quite usual) for a receiver to recover only sufficient assets to pay secured creditors and then turn the remainder of the process and any surplus assets over to a liquidator.  Receivers are not legally obligated to deal with the interests of unsecured creditors.


Bitcoinica LP might not own the domain.  They may have only had a conditional right to use it in the same way that Trade Hill had a conditional right to use the 3 domains for which it traded equity.