Interesting and nice to see. Hopefully the previous holders will get back into the market. After all, they can get more NEM now than they previously held for the refund amount Coincheck is giving them.
That is true. They can buy almost 3x what they lost at current rates. Hopefully they all see it was the exchange's fault and not NEM's. Maybe in the long term this will be a blessing in disguise. Who knows. Hopefully something good comes of it though.
I read the article but where do you read how those people who lost funds get reimbursed? Do they get NEM or do they get the equivalent of the moment when the theft happened in BTC? If the exchange reimburses them in NEM that would mean they need to buy it from the market and push the price up.