Quote from: JorgeStolfi on September 05, 2014, 11:12:43 AM

Quote from: DrApricot on September 05, 2014, 10:18:50 AM

At the recent creditor's meeting in Japan, he mentioned his plans to meet with potential purchasers of the bankrupt exchange's assets. This suggests the idea from the beginning may have been to sell Mt. Gox off to a company such as Sunlot or Bitocean Japan. If so, then the liquidation could be more or less Kabuki theater until such time as Kobayashi and company have finalized an acquisition. He presents himself as merely a neutral party representing the interests of creditors, yet in fact may have an agenda for what kind of outcome he wants to see.

Methinks you are barking up the wrong tree. Several people have been desperately trying to stop the bankruptcy process, since before it was filed, including many big clients and former MtGOX management. There are plenty of possible explanations for their despair. Sunlot has succeeded in stopping the US lawsuit, and all those people must now be pestering Kobayashi with proposals to let them take control. Sunlot has already promised immunity to Gay-Bouchery and Jed Mccaleb, and would not answer when asked what they would do about Mark.

You might be completely right about me barking up the wrong tree. I only meant the circumstances of this situation are quite unusual, and there is a need to think outside-the-box. I'm not sure you'll get that from a typical M&A firm. A quick google search for this company yields lots of links about mergers, etc. As Maslow once said, "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail".

I'm not sure Mt. Gox should have even declared bankruptcy. Although it allegedly once held 850,000 btc, as now 220,000 have been admitted found, then the company could have continued operating on a fractional reserve basis like a bank. If the real reason for the bankruptcy was a freeze placed on their fiat bank accounts, and not "disappeared" bitcoins, then that issue should have been negotiated with Mizuho Bank before declaring bk. Mt. Gox may have been the recipient of very poor legal advice, and it would make more sense now to somehow roll back the bankruptcy proceeding instead of proposing a sale of assets.