16,000 Bitcoin and 16,000 Bitcoin Cash have been moved out of cold wallets associated with the infamous, now defunct Japanese Bitcoin exchange MT. Gox today, April 26, according to Mt. Gox cold wallet tracking data on Crypto Ground.
The wallets are under the control of Mt. Gox's bankruptcy trustee, Nobuaki Kobayashi.
As displayed on the cold wallet monitor, the exchange has moved 16,000 BTC, worth $144 mln, and 16,000 BCH, worth around $21.7 mln by press time.
The sums were moved out in multiple batches of 2,000 BTC and BCH to various addresses.
The BTC amounts were then consolidated in two transactions to a single BTC address, and the BCH in four transactions to a single BCH address.
Looks like 16k BTC from Mt Gox were consolidated to this address.
Some reports claimed that the previously reported $400 mln Mt. Gox sell-off from December through February led to BTC prices dropping as low as $6,000 in February.
Mt. Gox used to be the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world until hackers stole around 850,000 BTC from it in February 2014.
Earlier in April, Mt. Gox ex-CEO Mark Karpeles claimed that he "Doesn't want" the 160,000 BTC that will reportedly be left over after the exchange repays its creditors.
Bitcoin Cash is trading at an average of $1,357, up 1.43 percent.
Mt. Gox Moves Around $165 Mln In BTC And BCH From Its Wallets
pubblicato su Apr 26, 2018
by Cointele | pubblicato su Coinage
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