{"id":118342,"date":"2023-07-05T19:00:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T19:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/crypto-user-moves-160m-bitcoin-from-luna-foundation-guard-wallet-report-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2023-07-05T19:00:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T19:00:42","slug":"crypto-user-moves-160m-bitcoin-from-luna-foundation-guard-wallet-report-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/crypto-user-moves-160m-bitcoin-from-luna-foundation-guard-wallet-report-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto user moves $160M Bitcoin from Luna Foundation Guard wallet: Report\n &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-v-7c7881ea=\"\">\n<p>An unknown party has moved more than $160 million worth of Bitcoin from a wallet reportedly tied to Luna Foundation Guard (LFG), the organization connected to Terraform Labs and its co-founder <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/top-people-in-crypto-and-blockchain-2023\/do-kwon\">Do Kwon<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>According to a July 5 report, an individual or individuals <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalasset.works\/news\/articleView.html?idxno=3271\">transferred<\/a> 5,292 Bitcoin (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/bitcoin-price\">BTC<\/a>) from an LFG address to a wallet seemingly not associated with Terra on July 3 \u2014 the crypto was worth roughly $161 million at the time of publication.  The transaction was the latest in a series of moves <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/42-5k-btc-reportedly-moved-from-luna-foundation-guard-wallet-as-ust-peg-crumbles\">crypto assets from LFG-controlled wallets<\/a> amid and following the collapse of Terra in May 2022. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">                5,292 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BTC?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BTC<\/a> (162,439,939 USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yVq6fde9yd\">https:\/\/t.co\/yVq6fde9yd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Whale Alert (@whale_alert) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/whale_alert\/status\/1675873686086139904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Blockchain data showed the reported LFG wallet <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blockchair.com\/bitcoin\/address\/bc1qnfs8pxqjrqkccd7706sln0r70ekdf7nslgqxkz8aa0j9yfk2980slvvsyq\">had<\/a> a balance of roughly 6,983 BTC in October 2022, with several transactions moving funds to different addresses over the last nine months.  At the time of publication, the wallet had a balance of 0.152427 BTC, or roughly $4,649.<\/p>\n<p>Other South Korean news outlets have <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blockmedia.co.kr\/archives\/261437\">Reported<\/a> The sender&#8217;s wallet address was associated with LFG, but Cointelegraph was unable to independently confirm this claim.  The organization was launched as part of attempts to stabilize the volatility of LUNA tokens by backing the project with TerraUSD \u2014 an approach that ultimately failed.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Related: <\/em><\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/sec-argues-against-motion-to-dismiss-terraform-and-do-kwon-lawsuit\"><strong><em>SEC argues against Dentons&#8217; motion to dismiss Terraform and Do Kwon&#8217;s lawsuit<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear how much in digital assets Kwon or Terra individuals with access may have moved from Terra amid its collapse.  The United States Securities and Exchange Commission <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/do-kwon-removed-10k-bitcoin-from-terra-after-collapse-takeaways-from-sec-complaint\">reported in February<\/a> that Kwon and Terra laundered more than $100 million worth of BTC, while in April South Korean prosecutors <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/do-kwon-converted-stolen-funds-from-luna-to-bitcoin-s-korean-prosecutors\">identified more than $314 million<\/a> \u2014 later freezing some of the assets \u2014 in crypto associated with Kwon and his associates.<\/p>\n<p>Kwon, after reportedly being on the run for several months following Terra&#8217;s collapse, was arrested in Montenegro in March for allegedly using forged travel documents.  In June, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/do-kwon-sentenced-to-4-months-in-prison-in-montenegro-on-fake-passport-charges\">the authorities sentenced him<\/a> and former Terra chief financial officer Han Chong-joon to four months in prison.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Magazine: <\/em><\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/hong-kong-crypto-exchanges-do-kwon-jail-korean-crypto-lenders-contagion-asia-express\/\"><strong><em>Korean crypto contagion, Bank of China on Ethereum, HK&#8217;s exchange red carpet: Asia Express<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><template data-name=\"subscription_form\" data-type=\"markets_outlook\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unknown party has moved more than $160 million worth of Bitcoin from a wallet reportedly tied to Luna Foundation Guard (LFG), the organization connected to Terraform Labs and its co-founder Do Kwon, According to a July 5 report, an individual or individuals transferred 5,292 Bitcoin (BTC) from an LFG address to a wallet seemingly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[235,203,210,234,231,232,237,238,236,233],"class_list":["post-118342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blockchain","tag-bitcoin","tag-crypto-currency","tag-elon-musk","tag-ethereum","tag-hyperledger","tag-ibm","tag-mining","tag-nodes","tag-spacex","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118344,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118342\/revisions\/118344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}