On February 27, 2026, Mark Karpelès — the former CEO of the infamous Mt. Gox exchange — reignited one of Bitcoin's most enduring and contentious debates. Operating under his GitHub handle MagicalTux, Karpelès submitted a pull request (#34695) to the Bitcoin Core repository proposing a targeted hard fork to recover approximately 79,956 BTC (worth over $5.2 billion at current prices) stolen during the 2011 Mt. Gox hack.