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Arkham Intelligence Reveals Grayscale’s Ethereum Holdings Across 500 Addresses
2.9.2023
On September 1, Arkham Intelligence, a crypto analytics and data tracking agency, reportedly pinpointed the ethereum (ETH) holdings of Grayscale for its Ethereum Trust. Arkham reveals that Grayscale’s ether stash is spread across 500 distinct addresses. Grayscale’s Ethereum Holdings...
Russian Investigator Took Over 1,000 BTC in Bribe Money From Hackers, Report
7.6.2023
An investigator working in Moscow has been caught with a record-breaking bribe paid by a hacking group in cryptocurrency. According to a Russian press report, the corrupt official accepted millions of dollars’ worth of bitcoin and saved the digital money for his retirement years....
South Korean Prosecutors Uncover Alleged $314 Million Criminal Proceeds Tied to Terraform Labs Co-Founders
7.4.2023
According to a report by South Korean news publication KBS, Do Kwon, the co-founder of Terraform Labs, has converted a “large part” of his assets into bitcoin. Prosecutors in South Korea believe that Kwon’s purported bitcoin stash was transferred to an international exchange....
Onchain Analysis Verifies the Number of BTC Held by Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust
24.11.2022
After Grayscale Investments shared information concerning the company’s product holdings, people questioned why the firm wouldn’t share the public addresses associated with the crypto assets it holds. However, on Nov. 23, OXT researcher Ergo published a Twitter thread featuring...
Binance’s Bitcoin Reserve Stash Nears 600,000, Company’s BTC Cache Is Now the Largest Held by an Exchange
20.11.2022
While there’s been a lot of discussions concerning proof-of-reserves, self-custody, and the more than $5 billion in bitcoin and ethereum that left exchanges between Nov. 7 through Nov. 14, 2022, Binance’s bitcoin stash has grown significantly since Nov. 12. In fact, metrics from...
$333 Million in Bitcoin Vanished from FTX Days Before the Company Filed for Bankruptcy Protection
20.11.2022
While it’s widely reported that hundreds of millions of dollars in Ethereum-based tokens were siphoned from the FTX wallet after the company filed for bankruptcy on Nov. 11, 2022, another $333 million worth of FTX-related bitcoins somehow vanished as well. At one point, FTX held $3.3 billion...
6,522 ‘Sleeping Bitcoins’ Worth $107 Million Wake Up After 5 Years of Inactivity
17.11.2022
On Nov. 16, 2022, at Bitcoin block height 763,474, someone transferred 6,522 bitcoin worth roughly $107 million after the coins sat idle for more than five years. While bitcoin’s value is 75% lower than it was a year ago, so-called sleeping bitcoins have been waking up amid the recent crypto...
3,500 ‘Sleeping Bitcoins’ From 2011 Worth Over $60 Million Wake up After 11 Years of Slumber
11.11.2022
On Nov. 11, amid the confusion concerning troubled crypto companies like FTX and Blockfi, 3,500 ‘sleeping bitcoins’ from a wallet created on Oct. 7, 2011, moved for the first time in over 11 years. $60 Million Worth of 11-Year-Old Bitcoins Move Amid the Crypto Market Rout A large...
The US Government Holds Over 214,000 Bitcoin, Fed’s Stash Equates to More Than 1% of BTC’s Supply
8.11.2022
United States law enforcement officials announced on Monday that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) seized “approximately 50,676.17” bitcoin from a Silk Road thief. The latest seizure adds to the cache of bitcoins the U.S. government holds today as three forfeitures during the last...
4 Years After the 2017 Law Enforcement Takedown, Alphabay Is Once Again the King of Darknet Markets
4.11.2022
Following the demise of the largest darknet marketplace (DNM) in mid-July 2017, the underground market Alphabay returned in August 2021, and during the last year, Alphabay has managed to once again regain its position as the world’s top DNM. Furthermore, Alphabay relentlessly conducted...
Microstrategy Buys 301 Bitcoin, Public Company Now Holds 130,000 BTC
20.9.2022
According to Microstrategy’s executive chairman Michael Saylor, his company has recently purchased 301 bitcoin for $6 million at an average price of $19,851 per coin. Saylor detailed that the firm’s balance sheet now holds 130,000 bitcoins as the company’s stash is the largest...
Another 5,000 Bitcoin Sourced From Mt Gox Wake up After Close to 9 Years of Dormancy
5.9.2022
Last week Bitcoin.com News reported on two old bitcoin addresses created in 2013 sending 10,001 bitcoin to a myriad of wallets. Heuristics and clustering techniques indicate that the bitcoins were associated with Mt Gox, roughly around the same time the exchange was hacked in June 2011. Five days...
Whale Spends 10,000 BTC Worth $203M, Bitcoins Stem From the Infamous 2011 Mt Gox Hack
30.8.2022
In two days’ time, bitcoin’s price dropped to fresh August lows as it dipped below the $20K per unit region for the first time since mid-July. During that time, two addresses created on December 19, 2013 sent 10,000 bitcoin worth $203 million to unknown wallets after sitting idle...
Tesla Reveals Bitcoin Holdings Worth $222 Million in Latest SEC Filing
26.7.2022
Tesla has revealed that it is still holding bitcoin worth $222 million in market value after selling 75% of its crypto holdings. The company recorded realized gains of $64 million on its recent bitcoin conversion into fiat currency. Tesla Realizes Gains of $64 Million From Bitcoin Sale Tesla Inc....
Jed McCaleb’s ‘Tacostand’ XRP Wallet Is Near Empty, After the Ripple Co-Founder Transferred 9 Billion XRP Over the Years
18.7.2022
Last month, it was reported that the co-founder of Ripple, Jed McCaleb was close to emptying his xrp wallet that held 81 million tokens worth $26 million. Following a transaction that saw 3,898,451 xrp transferred out of the address, McCaleb’s wallet is now close to being empty...
Satoshi Nakamoto Dropped From the World’s 20th Richest Billionaire to the 79th in 8 Months
7.7.2022
In mid-November 2021, Bitcoin’s inventor Satoshi Nakamoto was one of the wealthiest individuals on the planet, with more than $69 billion in bitcoin, and was among the top 20 on the Forbes 2021 Billionaires list. Seven months have passed since then, and Bitcoin’s unknown creator...
Jed McCaleb’s Ripple Stash Down to 81 Million — Co-Founder’s XRP Cache Likely to Dry Up This Year
3.7.2022
After selling billions of xrp tokens since 2014, the former Ripple Labs executive Jed McCaleb only has 81.53 million xrp left to sell. In mid-February 2021, it was expected that McCaleb’s stash would run dry that year in May. However, the selling took much longer, but today’s data...
Alleged Hydra Administrator Refuses to Provide Access to His Crypto Wallet, Report Claims
1.6.2022
A Moscow court has ordered the seizure of the crypto wallet of one of the alleged administrators of darknet market Hydra. Media reports reveal, however, that the man — who was arrested in Russia in mid-April — is refusing to share access to his presumed crypto stash with Russian...
Crypto Flash Crash Prompts El Salvador to Buy the Dip — 150 Bitcoins Added to Treasury
4.12.2021
As the crypto market shed billions of dollars, El Salvador bought the dip, taking advantage of the falling price of bitcoin early Saturday morning. With the latest buy, El Salvador has purchased a total of 1,370 bitcoins altogether. According to Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele, the coins were...
Bitcoin’s Unknown Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Now the 20th Wealthiest Person on Earth
17.10.2021
In mid-April the creator of the Bitcoin network, Satoshi Nakamoto entered the world’s top 20 richest billionaire list but after bitcoin’s price dropped, the inventor’s wealth plummeted. This week, Nakamoto has once again joined the top 20 richest people on the face of...