{"id":351618,"date":"2024-07-25T05:15:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T23:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/?p=351618"},"modified":"2024-07-25T05:15:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T23:45:53","slug":"mt-gox-moves-2470000000-worth-of-bitcoin-btc-to-crypto-exchanges-on-chain-data-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/mt-gox-moves-2470000000-worth-of-bitcoin-btc-to-crypto-exchanges-on-chain-data-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Mt Gox Moves $2,470,000,000 Worth of Bitcoin (BTC) to Crypto Exchanges: On-Chain Data &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The bankrupt crypto exchange Mt Gox has been spotted moving billions of dollars worth of Bitcoin following the successful distribution of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyhodl.com\/currencies\/bitcoin\/\">BTC<\/a> to its creditors.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Dave Ripley, CEO of Kraken, which was selected to facilitate the transfer of coins back to creditors, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DavidLRipley\/status\/1815880303254323603\">announced<\/a> that a successful distribution of BTC and Bitcoin Cash (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyhodl.com\/currencies\/bitcoin-cash\/\">BCH<\/a>) had been completed.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after, blockchain \u201cde-anonymizing\u201d platform Arkham <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ArkhamIntel\/status\/1816039649841754158\">spotted<\/a> the movement of at least $2.47 billion worth of coins, much of which ended up in addresses linked to crypto exchange Bitstamp. Mt Gox still holds over $5.32 billion worth of BTC, according to Arkham.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMT GOX UPDATE: $2.47B BTC MOVED<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mt. Gox moved a total of $2.47B BTC to new wallets this morning in order to distribute 5106 BTC ($335.8M) BTC to 4 separate Bitstamp addresses.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mt. Gox still holds 80,128 BTC ($5.32B).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Bitstamp is one of the 5 exchanges that the Mt. Gox Trustee is working with to return funds to Mt. Gox creditors. So far, Mt. Gox has sent 10,216 BTC ($675.9M) to Bitstamp.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 3360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Arkham\/X<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At time of writing, Bitcoin is trading at $66,442, seemingly unphased by the latest Mt Gox movements.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, economist Alex Kr\u00fcger <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyhodl.com\/2024\/07\/10\/market-will-absorb-mt-gox-and-german-government-sell-pressure-according-to-economist-alex-kruger-heres-why\/\">predicted<\/a> that the market would absorb Mt Gox coins with relatively minimal effect on the price of BTC.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLet\u2019s run some numbers. Gox has a total of 141,000 to be distributed, with 95,000 to be distributed within 90 days (going to those who elected to receive an early distribution in exchange for a 10% haircut).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Of those 95,000:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2013 20,000 going to credit funds<\/em><br \/><em>\u2013 10,000 going to a New Zealand exchange (entangled in its own bankruptcy process) =&gt; won\u2019t hit the market<\/em><br \/><em>\u2013 65,000 going to individual creditors<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Let\u2019s make some assumptions:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2013 assume 30% of 85,000 gets sold (=25,500 BTC)<\/em><br \/><em>\u2013 assume Gox creditors sell that 30% in one scoop, rather than spread through time<\/em><br \/><em>\u2013 assume the quantity\/price relationship is linear (even though it is not)<\/em><br \/><em>\u2013 assume Germany sells its entire remaining stack in one scoop<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Then we would have: (23.7+25.5) \/ 16 * 0.035 = 10.5%. That would trigger a 10.5% insta-dump. The market can absorb that.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><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 \/>\n<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 \/>\n<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 \/>\n<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<\/p>\n<div class=\"hideinamp\">\n<p>&amp;nbsp<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyhodl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Get-Alerts-728x90.png\" width=\"800\" height=\"99\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>Disclaimer: Opinions expressed at The Daily Hodl are not investment advice. 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On Tuesday, Dave Ripley, CEO of Kraken, which was selected to facilitate the transfer of coins back to creditors, announced that a successful distribution of BTC and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88552,"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-351618","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\/351618","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=351618"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351621,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351618\/revisions\/351621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}