Why would you bid on Gox.
The liabilities are at what like $300M?
You are telling me that for $300M you couldn't setup and market a new exchange that would totally dominate the marketplace...
We already know that the Gox backend is basically unusable and would need to be totally re-coded for anyone to even consider using it again. So they are taking on $300M in debt for what...the "Mt. Gox" brand and customer database...lol
The customer database is not to be sniffed at. There is no great rush of people trying to get into crypto at the moment. Look at the volume on Kraken - good exchange open for a while but...
And a lot of the Gox users are experienced and rich. Butter them up the right way and they will just keep on trading.
MtGox claims 1M users. Lets pretend they are all 100% legit, fully verified, no throw aways or duplicates. Lets also pretend 100% of them may use MtGox in the future. That would be $300 per user which is an asinine valuation. Cheaper to let MtGox die in bankruptcy and buy the customer list from the trustee. Still I guess anything is possible. Some people have deep pockets and a phobia of just holding their coins.