They were gone long before the company’s collapse in February 2014, the report said. Gox had therefore been operating on a fractional reserve basis for most of that time, either knowingly or unknowingly.
The stolen bitcoins had been withdrawn and sold off on various exchanges including Mt Gox itself, and given the timing probably at prices far below the 2013-14 highs.
盗まれたビットコインは、Mt. Gox を含む複数の取引所で売却された形跡があるようです。
Bankruptcy trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi and his police team have still not made all transaction data available, including a list of all the bitcoin addresses Mt Gox used.
The resulting chart shows a dramatic difference between the number of bitcoins Mt Gox should have held, and what it actually held.
The company held little or no more than 100,000 BTC from May 2013 onward. Interestingly, neither the ideal nor actual totals includes the 200,000 BTC ‘found’ in cold storage after the collapse.