Survey: 55% of Mt. Gox Creditors Will Not Sell Their Bitcoins
Mt. Gox’s Reddit community is pushing the HODL agenda, as the company’s administrators have yet to distribute 64 percent of the bitcoins owed to creditors.
Creditors of the hacked cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox are in no hurry to sell off their bitcoin payments, at least according to a vote by the Reddit community.
A recent survey conducted on the social network Reddit shows that not all Mt. Gox redemptions will go to liquidation. In this sense, the poll shows that up to 55% of creditors will not sell their bitcoins, despite the high return they have achieved. It should be remembered that users’ funds remain untouched for at least 10 years.
Survey Results at A Glance
In the aforementioned survey, 467 creditors of the aforementioned cryptocurrency exchange hacked in 2014 took part. Of these, a total of 260 stated that they would not sell a single Satoshi of their funds after receiving compensation. These hard holders represent 55% of all recipients of funds who participated in the survey.
This decision is in line with the Bitcoiner strategy called hodl. This means that investors decide to hold their BTC holdings through its various price fluctuations and volatility.
On the other hand, there are about 88 creditors (18%) who claim that they will sell all of their funds. The rest choose the option that they will sell a relative portion, while the bulk of their funds will remain in holding mode.
Of the latter group, a total of 26 participants indicated that they will liquidate between 25% and 50% of their holdings. Meanwhile, 68 of the creditors indicated that they would only sell between 1% and 25%. While these figures cannot be considered 100% certain, they do bring some calm to the market. It should not be lost sight of the fact that the main source of panic was centered on the total sale of the $9 billion in redemptions.
Confidence Increases: Mt. Gox Creditors Won’t Sell All Their Bitcoins
The fact that the majority of Mt. Gox creditors will not sell their bitcoins is very positive. This shows that the disappointment caused by the hacking of this defunct exchange did not change the confidence of these pioneering investors in cryptocurrencies.
The creditors of this Japanese platform are now among the most successful BTC holders. Some of them owned a few thousand-dollar cryptocurrency pairs and will now see millions in their wallets. Therefore, some of them will use this profit to collect. However, a larger number are confident that the coin will continue to rise.
Either way, the cryptocurrency market is expecting the rebates promised by the rehabilitation trustee to be delivered. Although the sales of BTC and BCH may not be as high as the worst-case scenario, they will certainly have a bearish effect. On the other hand, there are those who deny that this factor will be a determining factor for the price in the medium term.
The percentage that Mt. Gox redemptions represent in terms of flows into the crypto market in 2024 is small. Also, other positive events could become catalysts that smoothly reverse the negative effects of the liquidations. These catalysts include the start of interest rate cuts in the U.S. and the U.S. presidential election in November.
The poll may show the general investor sentiment on the Mt. Gox bankruptcy subreddit. However, it does not show the real picture for many reasons, such as discrepancies in payout amounts and only a fraction of creditors participating in the poll.
By Audy Castaneda