Nearly all of Mt. Gox’s former creditors might be looking to sell their Bitcoin, which has increased by over 8,500% in value in the 10 years since the exchange’s collapse.
Most of the Bitcoin being repaid by defunct exchange Mt. Gox will be market sold, threatening to cause more downside pressure for BTC.
According to finance analyst Jacob King, the Mt. Gox repayments could add $8.2 billion worth of additional selling pressure to Bitcoin’s (BTC) price.
The analysts said that on-chain movements already point to the fact that Mt. Gox’s creditors have started selling, King wrote in a July 4 X post:
