Conor Grogan, head of Coinbase’s product, said there was a slight chance that $ 8.6 billion Bitcoin had moved on Thursday – from a single whale that held it for more than 14 years in eight wallets – was caused by a hack, and if so, it could have been the biggest robbery ever.
“If it’s true (again, I think of the straws here), it will be the farthest of the biggest heist in human history,” Grogan Says In an X post on Friday, after raising the slim chance of the $ 8.6 billion worth of Bitcoin (Btc) Moved from eight separate wallets is the work of evil actors.
The BCH’s weakening transaction has Grogan spread over his head
“There is a little probability that $ 8B in the BTC recently woke up was to hack or compromise private keys,” Grogan said, pointing a weakening -suspected cash that bitcoin (Bch) transactions made before the meaningful Transfer on Thursday involving 10,000 Bitcoin at a time.
“I found a single BCH test transaction from one of the BTC whale clusters 14 hours ago, followed by the full amount. After an hour, BTC wallets began to move,” he said.
Grogan said it was possible that the purse -owned purse could quietly test the private key, as bitcoin cash transactions did not attract much attention from whale monitoring services. However, he reiterates that he has found the behavior that is not uncommon:
“What I’m saying is that the other BCH wallets are not touched at all; why don’t they sweep it either?”
In a post on the same day, the blockchain intelligence firm Arkham Says It is a single creature that has switched $ 8.6 billion worth of bitcoin from eight separate wallets.
$ 8.6 Billion Bitcoin is now sitting in eight new purses
Arkham said all Bitcoin was moved to the original wallets either on April 2 or May 4, 2011, and remained in the wallets for more than 14 years.
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Arkham said Bitcoin has now stored in eight new wallets and has not been moved ever since.
The price of Bitcoin remained relatively stable, dipping 1.02% in the last 24 hours and trade at $ 108,150 at the time of publication, According to In CoinMarketCap data.
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