Overview
- Mark Karpelès submitted a Bitcoin Core pull request proposing a hard fork to let the Mt. Gox trustee spend 79,956 BTC stolen in 2011 by redirecting them to a recovery address.
- The draft applied a single consensus exception to the 1Feex address by substituting its public key hash, set activation to an unreachable height, and arrived as a discussion starter rather than an official BIP.
- Maintainers shut the PR after about 17 hours as developers pointed discussion to the mailing list, warning that altering ownership rules would erode Bitcoin’s immutability.
- Several Mt. Gox creditors publicly opposed changing the protocol for their case, though some voiced support for pursuing court-ordered recovery of the dormant coins.
- Trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi has ruled out on-chain action without broad network backing, the targeted coins remain unmoved, and separate distributions of roughly 200,000 BTC to creditors continue toward an October 2026 deadline.