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.
Yeah I'd pay $300M for a list of people that will soon hate me.
With the amount of times gox has been hacked I'm sure there will be pastebin version of the database surfacing shortly; complete with MD5 unseed pass hashes.