Conor Grogan, Coinbase’s head of product, says there’s a slight chance the $8.6 billion worth of Bitcoin moved on Thursday — from eight wallets that had held the Bitcoin for over 14 years — was caused by a hack, and if so, it could be the largest robbery ever.
“If true (again, I’m speculating on straws here), this would be by far the largest heist in human history,” Grogan said After raising the small chance that Bitcoins worth (BTCIt was bad actors who moved the money out of eight different wallets.
Grogan has Grogan wondering about suspicious BCH transaction
“There is a small possibility that the $8B in BTC that recently woke up were hacked or compromised private keys,” Grogan noted a Bitcoin Cash that was suspicious.BCHBefore the transaction is significant, it must be made before. transfers The transaction was 10,000 Bitcoins per time.
“I found a single BCH test transaction from one of the BTC whale clusters 14 hours ago, followed by the full amount. An hour later, the BTC wallets began to move,” He said.
Grogan stated that Bitcoin Cash transactions do not attract the same attention as whale tracking services. He reiterated that he thought the behavior was unusual.
“What makes me say this is the other BCH wallets have not been touched at all; why wouldn’t they also sweep these?”
Arkham, a blockchain intelligence company posted a blog on the same date. said A single entity moved Bitcoins worth 8,6 billion dollars from eight wallets.
Eight new wallets now hold $8.6 Billion Bitcoin
Arkham claimed that Bitcoins had all been transferred in the original wallets between April 2 and May 4 of 2011, but they had not left the wallets since then.
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Arkham has said that the Bitcoins are now in eight different wallets, and have not been moved.
Bitcoin’s price is relatively stable. It has dropped 1.02% over the past 24 hours, and was trading at $108,150 as of the publication date. according CoinMarketCap Data
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Source: cointelegraph.com
