I made a small investment in MTI, and withdrew  most of it before the MTI liquidation. Allin all I made a nett loss. I recieved  summons for twice the amount of BTC I had withdrawn from MTI, and I am not in a position to pay it back. I have a small investment but it does not even cover 10% of what the liquidators want back from me.  That is money that I live off. Yet all in all, I have made a loss. I have no other means of income. What would be my options? 

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What you need to do is to lodge a claim form with the MTI liquidators in respect of the value of the bitcoin that you initially invested in the pyramid scheme. 

Then, you need to file a notice of intention to defend the summons, and then make a settlement proposal with the liquidators on some amount. 

You need to be aware that if you originally invested 0.05 BTC in the scheme, and then withdrew 0.04 BTC (i.e. you made a loss) then the liquidators will want you to return that 0.04 BTC that you withdrew. 

The fact that this 0.04 BTC has increased in value over the past 2 or 3 years, is unfortunate, but they will want their 0.04 BTC back. 

You will then need to put in the claim for the 0.05 BTC that you initially invested. 

Obviously, I'm just making up some figures here, but I'm just illustrating the point. 

If the BTC/ZAR exchange rate fluctuated wildly over the period of time, the liquidators do not care about that.