Bitcoin Forum

Other => Beginners & Help => Topic started by: mpfrank on June 21, 2011, 02:53:24 PM



Title: Transfer of 2.2M bitcoins on day of Mt. Gox crash?
Post by: mpfrank on June 21, 2011, 02:53:24 PM
[Apologies for the duplicate post; I had some problems posting... You can delete the extra copy]

Hi, does anyone know how to explain this transfer of 2.2 million BTC (a third of all Bitcoins in existence) which happened the day of the Mt. Gox crash?

http://blockexplorer.com/block/00000000000010b2b2d886ece5ef9ec089139dddb3a6f35cca6c56c5b371d4b9 (http://blockexplorer.com/block/00000000000010b2b2d886ece5ef9ec089139dddb3a6f35cca6c56c5b371d4b9)

The only thing I can think of is that Mt. Gox moved their entire stash of customers' coins to a new account for safety in case their wallet.dat got stolen by the hacker...

Thanks for any insights,
-Mike


Title: Re: Transfer of 2.2M bitcoins on day of Mt. Gox crash?
Post by: Seuros on June 21, 2011, 03:20:09 PM
Wow, that a big transfer i must say!


Title: Re: Transfer of 2.2M bitcoins on day of Mt. Gox crash?
Post by: forzendiablo on June 21, 2011, 03:27:09 PM
not bad indeed :)