Creditors of New Zealand-registered Bitcoinica LP are another step closer to payback with a decision on acceptance of their claims expected next month.
However, how much the 204 creditors get back and in what form the distribution will be made is still uncertain.
Bitcoinica's cash and bitcoin assets are held
in accounts on the MtGox exchange in Japan, which was the world's largest bitcoin trading exchange before it collapsed in April 2014.
Auckland-based liquidators Christopher McCullagh and Stephen Lawrence of insolvency firm PFK have been chasing MtGox for repayment of funds following a hacking incident and purported theft in 2011 that led to the exchange's collapse.
The stakes are high, especially given the rollercoaster bitcoin and other crypto currencies have ridden this past 15 months. The liquidators have received unsecured claims from 204 creditors of Bitcoinica for 104,714 bitcoins, US$323,241 in cash and US$276,135 of leveraged trading positions.
