{"id":311837,"date":"2024-05-28T23:51:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T18:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/?p=311837"},"modified":"2024-05-28T23:51:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T18:21:22","slug":"bitcoin-corrects-as-9666000000-worth-of-mt-gox-coins-suddenly-start-moving-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/bitcoin-corrects-as-9666000000-worth-of-mt-gox-coins-suddenly-start-moving-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Corrects As $9,666,000,000 Worth of Mt. Gox Coins Suddenly Start Moving &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Bitcoin touched the $67,409 level early Tuesday on news that former crypto exchange Mt. Gox rearranged nearly $10 billion in <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyhodl.com\/currencies\/bitcoin\/\">BTC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mt. Gox was at one point the world\u2019s largest Bitcoin exchange before abruptly going bankrupt and \u201closing\u201d most of its coins due to theft.<\/p>\n<p>The exchange ultimately recovered most of its coins and has been in a lengthy bankruptcy process paying back its former customers, a large source of uncertainty in the market given the amount of potential sell pressure it could release if it were to sell its BTC in order to redeem creditors.<\/p>\n<p>According to blockchain \u201cde-anonymizing\u201d platform Arkham, Mt. Gox has <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ArkhamIntel\/status\/1795433575698899160\">moved<\/a> roughly $9.66 billion worth of BTC to three newly created <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/platform.arkhamintelligence.com\/explorer\/entity\/mt-gox\">wallets<\/a> in four batches per address.<\/p>\n<p>While there was initial worry that the exchange was considering liquidating its coins, former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpel\u00e8s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MagicalTux\/status\/1795384525503222021\">clarified<\/a> on the social media platform X that the coin movements were only preparations for a distribution likely to happen later this year.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAs far as I know everything is fine with Mt. Gox. The trustee is moving coins to a different wallet in preparation of the distribution that will likely happen this year, there is no imminent sale of bitcoins happening.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At time of writing, BTC is trading for $67,740.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 13pt\">Don&#8217;t Miss a Beat \u2013 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyhodl.com\/join-the-daily-hodl-email-list\/\">Subscribe<\/a> to get email alerts delivered directly to your inbox <\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<br \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 13pt\">Check <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyhodl.com\/crypto-markets\/\">Price Action<\/a><\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<br \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 13pt\">Follow us on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheDailyHodl\">X<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thedailyhodl\/\">Facebook<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/thedailyhodl\">Telegram<\/a><\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<br \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 13pt\">Surf <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyhodl.com\/daily-hodl-mix\">The Daily Hodl Mix<\/a><\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"hideinamp\">\n<p>&amp;nbsp<\/p>\n<h6>Disclaimer: Opinions expressed at The Daily Hodl are not investment advice. Investors should do their due diligence before making any high-risk investments in Bitcoin, cryptocurrency or digital assets. Please be advised that your transfers and trades are at your own risk, and any losses you may incur are your responsibility. The Daily Hodl does not recommend the buying or selling of any cryptocurrencies or digital assets, nor is The Daily Hodl an investment advisor. Please note that The Daily Hodl participates in affiliate marketing.<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Generated Image: Midjourney <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin touched the $67,409 level early Tuesday on news that former crypto exchange Mt. Gox rearranged nearly $10 billion in BTC. Mt. Gox was at one point the world\u2019s largest Bitcoin exchange before abruptly going bankrupt and \u201closing\u201d most of its coins due to theft. The exchange ultimately recovered most of its coins and has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[201,248,251,246,257,255,250,252,247,253,249,256,254],"class_list":["post-311837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-others","tag-blockchain","tag-bsc","tag-chainlink","tag-coin","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-gta","tag-looks-rare","tag-oracle","tag-polygon","tag-quickswap","tag-safe-moon","tag-wallet","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311837","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=311837"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311846,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311837\/revisions\/311846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}