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Board Speculation
Mt. Gox cold wallet moves 8200 BTC. Might this be the cause of the latest crash?
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bbc.reporter
on 11/05/2018, 01:40:34 UTC
Before anyone accuses me of spreading doom again as someone told me hehehe, this thread is for the sake of speculation and discussion only. Please humor me.

In any case, I was under the impression that the Mt. Gox trustee was given a court order not to touch those coins. I do not know what really happened, but the timing of the transaction and the market dump hours later is very conspicuous.  



The transactions from the Mt. Gox cold wallets occurred in the early hours of the morning in Europe and 11 pm EST in the US. The transactions were sent to the address 1LncfoCX1yzuiW3hzejarvgZ1WahnAQ4o4 and totaled 8,214.97084 BTC, which is worth around $76.7 Million at press time.

The original movement Mt. Gox funds are thought to have kicked off the bear market starting in January of this year. But this time it’s different; institutions are coming to the crypto markets, and how these markets will react to this new movement of funds remains to be seen.


Read more https://blokt.com/news/mt-gox-cold-wallet-moves-8200-btc-will-bitcoin-dump