Bitcoin Drops To $59,000 As US Government Moves To Sell More BTC

Bitcoin fell 2.5% on Wednesday to $59.100 after the U.S. authorities moved extra of its Silk Highway-affiliated Bitcoin holdings to Coinbase Prime.

• On-chain evaluation platform Arkham Intelligence flagged the transfer on Wednesday, noting that 10,000 BTC price $593 million had been moved.
• “Pockets bc1ql obtained 10K BTC from a recognized US Authorities pockets 2 weeks in the past,” Arkham wrote to Twitter. “This BTC has simply been despatched on to 33J, a Coinbase Prime deposit pockets.”
• In keeping with Arkham, the U.S. authorities’s Bitcoin pockets nonetheless holds 203,239 BTC, price $12 billion.
• A lot of that Bitcoin was seized from the hacker of the fallen darknet market Silk Highway in 2021. On the time, the 50,000 BTC seizure amounted to the biggest monetary seizure ever carried out by the Division of Justice.
• This file was later damaged months later when the DOJ seized 94,600 BTC from Heather ‘Razzlekhan’ Morgan and her husband, Ilya Lichtenstein, who collectively hacked the Bitfinex crypto trade.
• The motion to Coinbase implies that the federal government continues promoting its BTC, regardless of Donald Trump’s promise to endlessly HODL the federal government’s present cash if elected president in November.
• It’s additionally coupled with ongoing BTC redistributions to Mt. Gox collectors. Arkham flagged a $2 billion Bitcoin transfer on Tuesday of creditor’s cash from BitGo’s blockchain pockets.