Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpelès has proposed a Bitcoin hard fork to recover approximately 79,956 BTC, valued at around $5.2 billion at current prices, which were stolen in a 2011 hack. These funds have remained untouched in their associated address for over 15 years. The proposal suggests introducing new consensus rules that would permit the unlocking of these funds via a signature from a Mt. Gox recovery address. Subsequently, the recovered assets would be distributed to creditors through a court-supervised civil rehabilitation process. The proposal explicitly states this is intended as a one-time exception for this single address. It acknowledges that this action could potentially compromise Bitcoin's immutability and carries a risk of chain splitting. (Source: The Block)

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