Creditors Against Celsius Selling Bitcoin - Coinleaks
Current Date:November 7, 2024

Creditors Against Celsius Selling Bitcoin

Celsius creditorsWhile evaluating the reassuring attempts of the CEO of the company as “empty and wrong”, the company’s bitcoinseeks to prevent him from selling his reserves.

Celsiusis currently filing for bankruptcy in New York, where the case is pending, but was dug up in a letter sent to court by creditors’ lawyers. bitcoinHe stated that the sale of the ‘s was not “explained for a logical reason”.

Creditors Are Not Totally Against Selling Bitcoin

Although the creditors are not completely against the sale of Bitcoins, they need more details on where and how the funds from the Bitcoins to be sold will be used. Creditors urging Celsius about “transparency and limits” asked the court to make the proposed sale “subject to approval.”

Following Celsius’ filings with the court, it was learned that the company’s mining subsidiary filed for bankruptcy a day later, with $750 million plus more than 80,500 mining rigs. Subsidiary Celsius Mining , had sought approval for an IPO on the stock market in May and announced their mining plans, which they aim to mine over 10,000 Bitcoins by the end of this year. In April, the firm announced that it owns over 151,000 Bitcoins.

Last month, Celsius’s attorney general Pat Nash urged creditors to remain calm and think about the situation in the long term. Celsius is still issuing 14.2 Bitcoins per day and asked creditors to wait for market conditions to improve. However, the firm changed its stance after that and asked for court approval to sell Bitcoins.

Creditors Don’t Trust the CEO

Creditors to Celsius and CEO Alex Mashinsky Levels of distrust in . were even more evident in another statement from creditors to the court this week. They denounced comments made by Mashinsky as “empty and false promises” just five days before the company decided to freeze client assets. In the statement, they complained that Celsius, while “previously advocating for transparency”, “has remained largely silent” after the decision to freeze assets.

Creditors are concerned that “including the possible misconduct of Celsius and its contents. CelsiusThey wrote that they demanded a thorough investigation” and that they would pursue “a decision that would maximize the value of Cuscius to the benefit of account holders and their unsecured creditors.”

By the way US Department of Justicedemanded further court review of Celsius’ plans to pay $409,000 severance pay to 19 employees and sell Bitcoin during its bankruptcy.