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Bitfinex Hacker moves $ two.five billion really worth of Bitcoin on New Year’s Day

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More than half of the Bitcoins stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex exchange hack have been out of the blue moved for unknown factors.

Bitfinex Hacker moves $ two.five billion really worth of Bitcoin on New Year’s Day

The hacker behind the 2016 hack of the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex moved a complete of 64,643 BTC in a series of transactions produced now (February one). This Bitcoin is really worth up to $ two.five billion at the time of creating.

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Massive Bitcoin transaction statistics webpage Whala Alert also announced these suspicious transactions, with six out of 21 transactions moving ten,000 BTC.

ten,000 #BTC (383,540,711 USD) of stolen money transferred from Bitfinex Hack 2016 to unknown wallethttps://t.co/kvvWQpZoq8

– Whale alert (@whale_alert) February 1, 2022

ten,000 #BTC (383,060,684 USD) of stolen money transferred from Bitfinex Hack 2016 to unknown wallethttps://t.co/xPu8fr270n

– Whale alert (@whale_alert) February 1, 2022

ten,000 #BTC (385,019,639) of stolen money transferred from Bitfinex Hack 2016 to unknown wallethttps://t.co/xd37YvatlQ

– Whale alert (@whale_alert) February 1, 2022

ten,000 #BTC (385,019,639) of stolen money transferred from Bitfinex Hack 2016 to unknown wallethttps://t.co/7KmjWdRitv

– Whale alert (@whale_alert) February 1, 2022

ten,000 #BTC (385,019,639) of stolen money transferred from Bitfinex Hack 2016 to unknown wallethttps://t.co/SUqyq5XzJN

– Whale alert (@whale_alert) February 1, 2022

ten,000 #BTC (385,019,639) of stolen money transferred from Bitfinex Hack 2016 to unknown wallethttps://t.co/iLyYLoTPOQ

– Whale alert (@whale_alert) February 1, 2022

It is not nevertheless clear who the handle of the dollars belongs to.

According to a representative of Bitfinex, the exchange misplaced a complete of 119,756 BTC soon after the 2016 assault (really worth $ 66 million at the time and $ five billion at the time). With 21 transactions now, 99.9% of the stolen money have been moved from the hacker’s unique handle.

Bitfinex claims to nonetheless function with worldwide law enforcement to investigate the identity of the attacker and recover the large sum of cryptocurrency.

In one more improvement, the selling price of BTC on the afternoon of February one rose to $ 39,one hundred, the highest worth because the January 21 drop. In addition to data on the most up-to-date Bitfinex hacker pursuits, India’s “implicit” recognition of cryptocurrencies by way of a thirty% fiscal move is observed as attainable information for the latest volatility of the currency, the biggest encryption in the planet.

1H chart of the BTC / USDT pair on the Binance exchange at six:25 pm on February one, 2022

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