The cryptocurrency community vibrates when a major Bitcoin transaction occurs, especially if the wallet or address the funds were moving from is famous, popular, or outdated.
Recently, a Bitcoin wallet was transferred and emptied, which contained 69,369 Bitcoins, or an estimated $ 972 million.
According to Coindesk , the wallet belonged to the infamous "Silk Road" store that was active on the Dark Web.
According to Elliptic, the transaction took place yesterday, Tuesday, from the fourth largest Bitcoin wallet with the address:
“1HQ3Go3ggs8pFnXuHVHRytPCq5fGG8Hbhx”
Towards an unknown address. The Twitter account “Whale_alert” also confirmed the transaction:
The transaction and transfer fee did not exceed $ 12 or 0.00087980 Bitcoin.
The mysterious wallet owner sent nearly $ 1 billion and paid $ 12 in fees without being required to identify "KYC" or submit to anti-money laundering measures "AML" or any other complex policy.
Who owns this wallet? Is it the same about money from it?
In the cryptocurrency world, it is normal for users to lose or forget their Bitcoin wallet keys.
Or, you may lose these keys as a result of damage to the computer's hard disks, human error, and other various scenarios.
It is worth noting that the lost Bitcoin amounts vary in value from a few dollars to several million.
This is what makes some amateurs and hackers try to find a way to find the private keys for the wallets that contain huge amounts of Bitcoin.
While in another explanation, Mr. "Tom Robinson" co-founder of "Elliptic" said in a post on "LinkedIn", in which he was told that this money probably originated from the "Silk Road" store.
He added that the digital currencies may have been transferred by the imprisoned Silk Road store operator "Ross Ulbrecht" or one of the vendors who were using the store.
For your information, this is the first transaction from the title since 2015, when 101 Bitcoins were transferred to the e-BTC trading platform, which provides the ability to exchange cryptocurrencies without revealing their identity.
By tracking the Bitcoin deposited in the fourth largest Bitcoin wallet, we find that the Bitcoin currencies moved to it on May 6, 2012, to remain unchanged there, with the exception of the 101 Bitcoin transaction that we referred to.
Another scenario referred to by Robinson is that an encrypted file containing what is alleged to be private keys for this wallet has been circulating on hacker forums.
If the password has been compromised, a hacker may have transferred the coins or their original owner to avoid the hacks.
In other words, two possibilities can be expected, according to what Robson told him:
Realistic Probability: The owner of the wallet is aware of the activity around his coins, and decides to move his stock to a safe location and change the wallet.
This has happened previously with many wallets from the "Satoshi era" as currencies move after years of inactivity.
Hollywood possibility: A lucky man got the wallet, possibly by hiring hackers who managed to obtain the redemption phrase.
Both possibilities are surprising, but given the security Bitcoin is equipped with, the former is more likely.
But for Alon Gall, chief technology officer at Hudson Rock, a cybercrime intelligence company, the "Hollywood prospect" should be taken seriously as well.
He was told there was a market for everything, even passive wallets.
The ability to crack the password of a .dat file, but not the private key of a particular wallet, looks attractive, as it might theoretically be easier.
In any case, whether he was a hacker or the real owner of the wallet, he calls and hopes crypto traders that this person will not transfer it to the market and continue to hold and store it.
Where, in the event that these currencies are pumped into the market, it is expected to be dumped, which is bad for bulls who expect more bitcoin to rise.
