$1B Bitcoins On The Move: Owner Transfers ~$100M to Bitfinex And Binance In 10 Days, by r/Bitcoin | u/sick_silk

in #bitcoin6 years ago

This is the third post of a series of articles dedicated to investigate $1B worth of bitcoins (111,114 BTC/BCH/... BXX) that were dormant since 2014 and started moving actively. The BTC coins were originally located at this address 15ihHoGs3onQBNnEH8afDFGvou9nD62Hm7.

The origin of the bitcoins is discussed here.

A deep-dive into the wallet activity was discussed here.

Today, I will focus on the transfer to major exchanges wallets that could indicate that the owner is selling his coins or exchanging it with alts or mixing it to cover his back.

I built a graph in order to deep dive into the transactions originated from the 111,114-BTC wallet and to follow it. This is the resulting graph were red indicates transactions <1 day, yellow <1 month, blue <1 year, green else.

I found that at least 15,593 BTC originated from the 111,114-BTC wallet have been moved to Bitfinex and Binance wallets. This represents 14% of the original funds and more than $110M.

Bitfinex wallet

11,114 BTC have been transferred to Bitfinex wallet 1Kr6QSydW9bFQG1mXiPNNu6WpJGmUa9i1g and the majority of these coins have been transferred in the last 7 days (August 24th - September 2nd).

Here is the list of the transactions:

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Source: Posted by u/sick_silk

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