Just received an e-mail from Binance:

Is there any replacement for this service? I very much liked that I could pay anywhere without ever touching fiat...

See the thread I made: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5341234.0
I decided to read the damn thing and I will post my amateur opinion there once I'm done reading.

Thank you. 15% of BTC doesn't sound half bad, actually. Considering the coins I left on MTGOX I got at $100 a piece not long before the gox ceased allowing transactions. I will happily vote for this plan. Honestly, in current prices it will still be the best return on investment I had with Bitcoin yet.

The creditors cannot be repaid in full, half of the BTC is gone. But if I can get only a fraction of my BTC there, it is still a fortune in current prices.

That was actually a reason why it is taking so long. The BTC prices have risen few years ago and the MTGOX ceased to be bankrupt (calculated in fiat). The legal situation was then converted from bankruptcy to civil something-something and the whole process started again from the scratch.

I'm sorry, but that is not the question. We creditors can vote for the "Draft Rehabilitation Plan" as it stands, or against it. I'm trying to understand what the 200-pages plan even is.

Yes, I'm painfully aware of how long this is taking. I have been on the MTGOX ride from the beginning. Still, current development actually gives a glimmer of hope, whereas a year ago I would say that Kobayashi* Maru is a no win scenario.

Well, half of the BTC from MTGOX is already gone. The rest of the BTC will hit the market one way or another - if the creditors are to be paid in YEN, BTC would need to be converted by the Trustee. If creditors are paid in BTC, they will likely sell portion of it anyway.

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* Kobayashi is the name of the lawyer in charge of the MTGOX bankruptcy.

Ratimov: yes, the back and forth was going on for years in this case. But this time it is different. For the first time, the creditors have to vote on this plan. The deadline is until October 2021. As one of the creditors with small fortune of BTC in stake, I'm trying to figure out if I should vote hai or nah.

After years of deliberation there finally is a Draft Rehabilitation Plan for the bankrupt BTC exchange MTGOX, approved by Tokyo Court. The document is more than 200 pages long and while there is a translation to English provided, I'm still quite clueless what the legalese means. Did any of the fellow creditors read it and understand it? How will you vote?

As a creditor with BTC/BCH claim I am particularly interested in the following question regarding this Plan:

Will I get any significant portion of my BTC/BCH deposit with MTGOX back or will the crypto be converted to YEN using 8 years old exchange rate?

yes, 21 million Chia coins were pre-mined by the corporate entity controlling Chia

Amen to that. See https://github.com/Chia-Network/chia-blockchain/issues... there are 1.1k opened unresolved issues with this software and the list is growing daily.
My dedicated linux box with 3GHz Pentium is currently topped at 100% CPU. Not plotting, just running the full Chia node. I don't consider that green at all. Hell, I've been running full Bitcoin node on much slower early generation Atom PC, causing barely any load, and the Bitcoin network actually have value and does something useful unlike Chia.
This coin is such a Potemkin village.

You can plot using regular HDDs, it just takes a bit longer. Plotting one k=32 plot did take 10 hours on my SATA SSD and about 12 hours on regular HDD. I did not try it on NVMe, because I don't have one with sufficient size.
The difference in speed is not worth destroying your SSD (see bellow) in my opinion. Get more HDDs and plot on them all in parallel, one plot per drive - IF you wish to participate in this shamcoin.

My consumer SATA SSD (Samsung SSD 870 EVO 500GB) purposefully bought and used exclusively for chia plotting is down to 85% of its "Wear_Leveling_Count" S.M.A.R.T. attribute after about 50 or so plots (k=32). That equates to 5 TB of plotted space. I expect about 30 TB of plotted space before this drive will begin to fail. But there are better (and more pricier) SSDs on the market, you should consider them if you want to speed up your crazy train ride (see my answer above).

https://www.chiaexplorer.com/charts/xchTib
there you can enter your disk capacity and it will show you a prediction of what can be expected

but beware the minimum reward is 2.0 XCH when you actually farm (mine) a block, so if the prediction for your disk size and number of days you are willing to let it run is not higher than 2.0 XCH, then you are probably better off staying out until the pool support is properly implemented

yes, that's right, chia is designed in a way that makes free pooling impossible, instead they are implementing their vision of what fair pooling may look like

and it (announced chia pool support) is as retarded and unfree as you can expect from a pre-mined corporate wish-to-be ecological crypto

meanwhile the world harddrive supply vanished overnight and you can expect shortages

I really hate chia

yes, if you are able to wait 10 years for your coin... it took about a month to plot 10 terabytes on the hardware that is cheap and readily available

the reward with 10 TB plots is expected in about a month, but the difficulty is currently ramping up faster than you can plot and if you are not lucky and win the reward soon, in two weeks it can be expected in next three months, then a year and at that point you are out of the game without significant investment in specialized hardware

Well, I'll be damned. This coin wasn't a complete waste of effort after all. I'll be selling my 2 coins I was able to mine, if I can ever get that horrible client to sync. I will probably reinvest the proceeds on Nasdaq to WDC or STX.

Red flags, red flags everywhere. It's like the return of the Soviet Union.

This crypto does not allow sending and receiving. You are at the mercy of the developers to enable it later. Does more need to be said? You are not in control of your chia wallet, even if you have the private keys. This is the opposite of user control, opposite of coin ownership. Chia, after several years of development, does not have one of the fundamental required properties - the ability to send and receive. And it is heavily pre-mined, the bug tracker is a bloody mess, software is slow, bloated and unstable. Network is experiencing serious problems even with literally ZERO transactions (remember, transactions are not allowed at the moment).

Are there any red flags left unraised by this coin?

I've been toying with Chia for the past two weeks and while the idea sounds okay, the software written in Python is a complete dumpster fire. The version 1.0.4 refuses to connect, corrupts the database, exhausts your RAM, stops working randomly, or creates your "farming plots" with SOMEONE ELSES mining address. Can't believe they got investment for this. Satoshi, while acknowledging he is not a programming expert, wrote better software in his spare time and on his own.

Really, do look it up. When you do, you will realize that the "investor" comparing it to Bitcoin either knows nothing about Tulip mania, nothing about Bitcoin, or both.

It took me a while, but I got the joke finally... He refers to a magical Wand of Mining. Very funny!

You are doing it wrong - this is a Bit Furry, not a BitFury 

Now, you are being silly. He obviously referred to the other device - the Williams AC unit.