Claims ledger / Bitcoin
Mt. Gox lost 850,000 BTC.
overstated
Mt. Gox’s subsequent company announcement reported finding 199,999.99 BTC. The earlier 850,000 figure must retain its date and provisional scope.
- Attribution
- attributed-paraphrase
- Publisher
- Mt. Gox's own 28 February 2014 announcement
- Published
- Not established; not inferred from a retrieval date
- Original source
- Read the attributed source
- Original excerpt
- approximately 750,000 bitcoins deposited by users and approximately
Verification record
Automated author inspected the primary-source passage, separately from source collection; matching text and content hash are enforced on rebuild.
Codex (automated research author) · 2026-10-02T19:35:23.735Z · External expert review not claimed.
Primary passages checked
199,999.99 BTC). MtGox Co., Ltd. investigated the presence
Primary source · normalized text offset 1675
Inspect source retrievals
- https://www.mtgox.com/img/pdf/20140228-announcement_eng.pdf
Retrieved 2026-10-02T19:09:26.037Z · SHA-256 f8969b1dab5065b35e6c0eaaad60f11709715e010c33b8b8a2e896676a679b8c - https://www.mtgox.com/img/pdf/20140320-btc-announce.pdf
Retrieved 2026-10-02T19:09:29.079Z · SHA-256 6bbe85a4dc64480fabc6ace625b88b30d36a3533d2363fb4cbddd1063ee4f9af
Assessment history
| Edition | Assessment | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| imported-correction-ledger | The 850,000 figure was a provisional company estimate; after 199,999.99 BTC was found in an old-format wallet, Mt. Gox revised the estimated disappearance to about 650,000 BTC and reported roughly 202,000 BTC held. | preserved prior interpretation; not new verification |
| 1.0.0 | overstated | Mt. Gox’s subsequent company announcement reported finding 199,999.99 BTC. The earlier 850,000 figure must retain its date and provisional scope. |
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