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‘BFX Tokens 2.0?’ Bitfinex Unthaws Another 12.8K BTC from its Cold Wallet

Matthew North
by Matthew North
6 years ago
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Posted in Altcoins, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Exchange, News, News teaser
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Bitfinex, an exchange that lost the second largest amount of bitcoin to date, has withdrawn an additional 12.8k BTC from its cold wallet, latest data shows. 

Address Details

The receiving address, (whose owner is unknown) has received smaller amounts of Bitcoin very recently. The address hash is 3JZq4atUahhuA9rLhXLMhhTo133J9rF97j . The address received four payments in total:
  • 77 BTC on April 28
  • 139 BTC on  April 29
  • 332 BTC on April 29 (23 minutes later)
And the largest transaction of 12,879 BTC on April 29 nearly 17 hours later. Without digging into the transaction history too much, the address appears to be a transitory account of sorts as the coins held are not kept in storage for very log. In total, the address had received 153,602 BTC while spending the total amount of coins the same day.

Where did the coins go?

The coins were sent to one address: 13Je1ECP9bmmwXGs4fnoLBTV4taayQe225 that would subsequently send the coins to two more addresses, namely: 1Kr6QSydW9bFQG1mXiPNNu6WpJGmUa9i1g and 3CMsmcjQiam5kzCgt5FEheS4SetLNZriZ5. The coins were then moved to tens of other accounts split over various denominations. So far, Bitfinex is yet to make a statement on the movement of the coins.

Part of bigger losses?

This was by far not the first time that a large sum of Bitcoin had been transferred from Bitfinex’s reserves, as reported by Twitter user Whale Alert on April 26.

🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 13,377 #BTC (70,350,098 USD) transferred from #Bitfinex to unknown wallet

Tx: https://t.co/giyoVxsISd

— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) April 26, 2019

The unexplained movement of bitcoin from the Bitfinex wallets could be part of a larger controversy involving the exchange and its financial battle involving 17,000 bitcoin.

As previously reported by Bitcoinist, Bitfinex un-thawed a total of $165 million from its cold wallet in just under 12 hours amid an uptick in customer withdrawals.

In response, Bitfinex would transfer a BTC amount worth roughly $75 million.

Bitfinex’s bigger problems

Despite these large price movements, Bitfinex is fighting a much larger legal battle from the New York Attorney General’s office. The exchange is fighting back against accusations of an $850m cover-up by the company, which Bitfinex says are “riddled with false assertions.” The NY Attorney General is accusing Bitfinex of losing $850m of customer funds, and that it used the platform’s own stablecoin, Tether, to hide the companies’ tracks. Bitfinex would later claim that its funds were “seized and safeguarded” and that it was working proactively to get the alleged funds released back to customers. The company would also go on to assure traders that its platform and Tether had the required liquidity, stating:
Both Bitfinex and Tether are financially strong – full stop. And both Bitfinex and Tether are committed to fighting this gross overreach by the New York Attorney General’s office against companies that are good corporate citizens and strong supporters of law enforcement. Bitfinex and Tether will vigorously challenge this, and any and all other actions, by the New York Attorney General’s office.
Other online commentators meanwhile quipped whether this may mean another ‘version 2’ bail-in exchange token from Bitfinex. https://twitter.com/cryptoSqueeze/status/1123117734693199873 These speculations are apparently qualified as Bitfinex plans to launch an exchange token sale, as confirmed by major shareholder of Bitfinix Zhao Dong on the Weibo platform.
Bitfinex does have a plan to issue its exchange token, but the details have not yet been finalized. If someone tells you they have access to Bitfinex’s token sale, beware that it is very likely a scam
Will Bitfinex issues some new type of BFX token again, if necessary? Share your thoughts below!
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