Former Mt. Gox CEO Proposes Hardfork to Recover $5.2B in BTC

Mark Karpelès, the former chief executive of the defunct Mt. Gox exchange, is urging the Bitcoin community to consider a network hard fork designed to retrieve nearly 80,000 Bitcoin linked to the platform’s historic hack. Key Takeaways: Mark Karpelès proposed a Bitcoin hard fork to recover 79,956 BTC worth about $5.2B from the Mt. Gox hack. The plan would allow the coins to move without the original private key and p…