Mt. Gox Repayment Deadline on October 31, 2026: What Creditors Need to Check Now

The deadline for the Mt. Gox repayments ends on October 31, 2026, Japan Time. In practice that means the cut-off has already passed on Friday, October 30, 2026, at 16:00 Central European Time. Anyone holding an approved claim against the former bitcoin exchange has to have their paperwork and their payout account in order by then. If you simply own Bitcoin and want to know whether selling pressure is heading your way: the 2024 precedent argues against it, and that can be evidenced.

The date is the largest crypto deadline of this autumn, and in German not a single text so far ties it to a concrete action. German-language coverage last touched the subject in early June 2026, when a wallet movement ran through the news. This guide closes that gap. It tells you what the deadline is in legal terms, what rehabilitation creditors have to have completed by then, how much BTC still sits in the estate of the proceedings, and what the date means for every other bitcoin holder. You will not find a price forecast here, because the process does not carry one.

When the Mt. Gox repayment deadline ends and why October 30 is the date that counts

The official page of the proceedings puts it in these words: "The Rehabilitation Trustee has changed the deadline of the Base Repayment, the Early Lump-Sum Repayment, and the Intermediate Repayment from October 31, 2025 (Japan Time) to October 31, 2026 (Japan Time), respectively." The decisive part sits in the brackets. Japan Time, JST for short, runs nine hours ahead of universal time. October 31, 2026 therefore ends in Tokyo at 15:00 UTC, and because European summer time expires on October 25, 2026, that is 16:00 Central European Time on Friday, October 30, 2026.