US government moves $1B in seized Bitcoin after $770M transfers
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A wallet tied to bitcoin seized in the Bitfinex hack moved 12,267 BTC, worth about $1.01 billion, into new unlabeled addresses on Thursday. No exchange deposit was recorded in the transfer, and other reporting said the same coins had already been marked as spent after reaching those new addresses.
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Before this transfer, the same coins were sitting in a seized-wallet structure linked to the Bitfinex hack recovery, and after it they were split into new unlabeled wallets. In practice, that changes the custody path seen on-chain, but it does not by itself show an exchange sale or a destination with a named owner. One report also says both outputs were already marked as spent after the move, which means the coins had moved again by the time that data was checked.
What is still open is the purpose of the move and whether any later transaction will clarify the path of the coins. One piece says no sale was indicated, while another says the larger transfer was traced to two fresh addresses, and the available data does not settle which address set matters most for the final trail. (per beincrypto.com)
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Has this happened before?
| When | What happened | Figure |
|---|---|---|
| 31 days ago | US government moves $103M in crypto, including 833 BTC and 40,285 BNB event | 1 actors in common · 3 news media |