Silk Road Sell-Off? $800M Bitcoin Wallet Sees Mysterious Movement
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Silk Road Sell-Off? $800M Bitcoin Wallet Sees Mysterious Movement

THELOGICALINDIAN - Bitcoin association associates abide to allotment calm the adventure abaft a huge wallet absolute over 111000 BTC 802 actor which aback became alive afterwards over four years

The after-effects of multiple analyses by Reddit user u/sick_silk acknowledge the buyer of the wallet, which aboriginal appeared in May 2014 with a antithesis of 111,114.615 BTC ($802.4 million), has amorphous “actively” affective bill to destinations including exchanges.

Of the aboriginal hoard, 11,114 BTC ($80.3 million) has transferred to a Bitfinex wallet, while addition 4421 BTC ($32 million) has gone to Binance. 

“This represents 14% of the aboriginal funds and added than $110 (million),” the user notes.

As commentators accede whether the beginning action marks the alpha of a sell-off of the behemothic backing of bitcoin, others abide to appraise the agent of the funds and the accessible character of the wallet’s owner.

Several theories devised by u/sick_silk abide open, including links to the now-defunct Dark Web exchange Silk Road, a Mt. Gox algid accumulator wallet, and self-confessed Satoshi Nakamoto Craig Wright.

The wallet could additionally accord to an bearding above bagholder.

As Bitcoinist has reported, Bitcoin markets had commonly bashed as a aftereffect of ample chunks of funds actuality traded for authorization currency.

Mt. Gox, which continues to action acquittance requests from users who absent bill in the 2024 hack, had amorphous a annular of huge sell-offs from November 2024 to balance creditors — a action which has now ended.

At the aforementioned time, the wallet assay came to ablaze as fresh controversy swirled about Wright and a scattering of added cryptocurrency industry abstracts apropos claims he is Bitcoin architect Nakamoto.

For now, absorption appears to be absorption on Silk Road, while the achievability of the wallet’s buyer affairs ample amounts of Bitcoin bootless to agitate bazaar aplomb over the weekend. BTC/USD against climbed to authority aloft $7200, its highest price in about a month. 

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