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Price is boring, so I started to think about this address again. What is this?  It's around 600k coins. A cold storage of exchange - Huobi? Anybody knows about this?

15c2N528gELxafSDZyKgJeVBYujtpH8cx4 →     1EBHA1ckUWzNKN7BMfDwGTx6GKEbADUozX   65,490.79565383 BTC
1AXmu2pGHuS67v1BrmRo1MAapFbbJo9QUw    194DnvmLR2HULRvxUsVag8mn2fm7dA3U2B   65,612.30258284 BTC
                                                              14e7XAZbepQp9MXXzjNG3fNLoAUpaBAXHW   65,368.05262423 BTC
                                                              1PnMfRF2enSZnR6JSexxBHuQnxG8Vo5FVK   65,387.09683413 BTC
                                                              1PB4xXUFyy4kSNqroCBVaQuCuw9VcN3be4   65,670.69432414 BTC
                                                              1KiVwxEuGBYavyKrxkLncJt2pQ5YUUQX7f   65,583.2220039 BTC
                                                              1DiHDQMPFu4p84rkLn6Majj2LCZZZRQUaa   65,281.25306696 BTC
                                                              18f1yugoAJuXcHAbsuRVLQC9TezJ6iVRLp   65,663.44347767 BTC
                                                              1ABS7zUZP76NjNYs9DLoWnKfZFTR7WLrAM   40,663.46529761 BTC →
                                                                   1M39YivicDwfXfv8ocStsoMpHsxKX5TmLZ   10,000.000365 BTC
                                                                   1AhTjUMztCihiTyA4K6E3QEpobjWLwKhkR   65,462.59283051 BTC
                                                                   1G1AndHMczVQYLGfYJzqkDjXrFifpMsTaZ   10,000.000265 BTC
                                                                   15MJrgLCGBCbGr17DekPtN2JBpcQFaxA1k   10,663.41529761 BTC → ....


edit: Added second source address. So 15c2N528gELxafSDZyKgJeVBYujtpH8cx4 and 1AXmu2pGHuS67v1BrmRo1MAapFbbJo9QUw were collecting till end of nov. 2013, than all was transfered to new adresses. There they continue accumulating in this year.

why do you think these addresses are of one entity? just because amounts are similar?

15c2N528gELxafSDZyKgJeVBYujtpH8cx4 goes to multiple adresses with 65k BTC. Yes I think they are from one.

Maybe some1 is transfering large amount of cash its easy to transfers with btc and its a small fee for this.

This can easily be the case.
Small fee for transferring large amount of cash with btc.

Or someone is trying to storage large amount of btc.
Maybe some broker from US or something similar.

That was me...someone stole my wallet.

100 BTC bounty for anyone who can get me the private key.

How much did Mark Karpeles claim to have lost...?

Around 600K/650K  :D

Not sure if he still have that many, perhaps he have cashed out some coins.

Probably one of the main exchange. Or some illegal underground operator wallet.

Point is whoever this is knows they just have to hold out a little longer for bitcoin to get near that 420 resistance level...... Maybe he knows it will break beyond that, who knows

These are probably the stolen coins. Looks like they have been sending them through mixers to hide where they came from. This would explain why the bitcoin transactions per day is at an all time high with all these coins constantly going through mixers and then being sold mostly on bitstamp. Which also explains the heavy selling pressure.

Oh Hai Mr. Karpeles, how's your luxurious life working out?
*mumbles something with karma*

if this is really fat Karpels-fuck and he would still have to dump/sell those then have fun with your bitcorn.
See you bitcoinwhales in altcoinsection ;)

you know it's true, Karp is selling, when altcoins go to the moon without fat old bitcoin. Alts to the moon, bitcoin stays around 100$ to 200$ until Karp finished up. Alts can't stay down much longer. First signs of trendreversal in alts weeks ago, now start the first pumps. This can be accelerating.

Why would someone with that many stolen coins put them in the same giant wallet? It's obviously going to show up at the top of the rich list and draw massive attention.

Whoever it is is one single rich ass entity/person that didn't bother making it any less obvious with all these big 65k chunks.

600k :o damn, what a lucky guy!

I always knew this day would come. You have finally found my wallet. Yes people it is I who owns the coins. I made one good trade on Cryptsy now here I am with 600K btc. Who want to help me spend?

I was actually serious about my question. It's weird that the first transaction was at 2012-10-11 01:30:57; but then they started more at the end of 2013. If they started to buy at the end of 2013, thats way more than todays worth of 200 mil$. But of course, they could just randomly put more coins from mixers, to look like organic buying instead of criminal activity.


edit: If this is some legit entity buying and accumulating, without them the price this year would be much lower.

No one has provided any other good explanation.  The amount and dates seem to fit.  I've never tried to track flows in the block chain.  So none of these have been sold?  All 660,846.33462343 are still in cold storage?

The point is if this is one person or even a small group, that means BTC price is held together by gum and glue.......

the question is who is still dumb enough to hold that many coins in one address?

Looks like these coins are finally on the move...

Any idea if its related to BTC-e ?

it's moving again.


https://btc.com/1AhTjUMztCihiTyA4K6E3QEpobjWLwKhkR
https://btc.com/1PnMfRF2enSZnR6JSexxBHuQnxG8Vo5FVK
https://btc.com/1EBHA1ckUWzNKN7BMfDwGTx6GKEbADUozX
https://btc.com/198mmEcqMgmjmi4pXi48hRaZyK5GaPDmJt
https://btc.com/1J7fmT3Wv62u4p6FuwbVJQXhQE3HiH4AQs
https://btc.com/1GqaihzhS33G4kt7VKJ7UEL1ENaHazRS2k
https://btc.com/1HMwZiBHbLtJEkBAbfVnjc1RNLnvm6rNcQ
https://btc.com/1G1AndHMczVQYLGfYJzqkDjXrFifpMsTaZ
https://btc.com/15UM5LKsgR3UyLaTLZkPudU7Joe1JnYWQo
https://btc.com/13cKZYW75zBPuW6xp8Pt5QTWFHQpXosP56
https://btc.com/1FrKNGFCqZAV3y3n9HSswoSDX8ExKb2paD
https://btc.com/1H82cMM9dzeUmuDfp5GmG6msLAdKfN7uZ7
https://btc.com/13cKZYW75zBPuW6xp8Pt5QTWFHQpXosP56

Is there some significance to these coins besides the amounts? It looks like they're just moving coins from legacy addresses to Segwit addresses and breaking them up into smaller amounts. No sign of exchange wallets or anything.

Possible thing but no one knows actually on whats the reason behind on breaking up into smaller parts with those coins. If that amount of btc is only possessed of a single person then its an amazing thing to know that
there are still people who do accumulate as much as they can.

well, I'm sure those who have this wallet are people who have such a big company. well, it's like a dream if you think we have that kind of money. well, hopefully this doesn't make the price of bitcoin go down further.

There are so many unknowns about this all together. Are they an exchange ? If they are that would make a lot of sense, they could be just doing some cold storage moving all together to segwit address however do we know if they are an exchange or not? Also if it is just couple people, even at 2012 times that is a lot of money to shell out on bitcoin, not that people didn't do it but even Winklevii twins who have been outspoken about their bitcoin holding doesn't have that much bitcoin.

Considering Craig was given 1.1 million that is the biggest possibility, maybe its him? If it is someone else than it means there is 1.1 mil at Craig, 400k at Winklevii and 600k here which comes down to 2 million bitcoin all held by just 3 owners. That is not a good news for us at all.

And you can add that I also own 2 millions so 4 millions BTC owned by 3 persons and pair of twins.

do you honestly believe that vegetable has anything to do satoshi's coins, let alone satoshi himself?

his claims to those coins involved yet another lie of his. he linked to addresses under the gox creditor's control in one of his countless lawsuits claiming they were his.

https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/craig-wright-court-documents-show-alledged-1-million-bitcoin-stash-may-be-mt-gox-btc-address/