The US Government has once again moved their Bitcoin holdings, with $1.92B transferred from a wallet containing funds confiscated from the Silk Road marketplace (bc1qn). Of the $1.92B, approximately $100 was sent into a Coinbase Prime deposit address (33Tgp) as a test transaction, with the remainder sent to a fresh wallet (bc1q0).
With the success of the initial test transaction, the remaining BTC held in bc1q0 was split into two portions, with 10,000 BTC sent to the initial Coinbase Prime deposit address, with the rest held in another wallet (bc1qx).
The movement of BTC has once again spooked the markets, with the possibility that transfers to centralized exchanges could represent current or future sales of BTC. The US Government still holds $18B in assets, of which the majority are seized criminal proceeds including funds from FTX’s Alameda, Silk Road’s Ross Ulbricht, the BitFinex hack and more.
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