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Arkham monitoring shows that a U.S. government address has just transferred $606,470 worth of Bitcoin to Coinbase Prime. This Bitcoin was previously seized by the U.S. government from Ilya Lichtenstein, the Bitfinex hacker. It remains unclear whether this batch of stolen Bitcoin will be sold on Coinbase.
According to on-chain analytics platform Lookonchain (@lookonchain), the U.S. government deposited 8.2 BTC (approximately $606,000) into Coinbase Prime; these funds originated from assets previously seized in connection with the Bitfinex hack.
According to on-chain analyst Yujin (@EmberCN), Tether—the issuer of USDT—recently withdrew 951 BTC (worth approximately $70.47 million) from Bitfinex to its BTC reserve address. This batch of Bitcoin was purchased in Q1 this year using 15% of the company’s profits. Tether’s BTC reserve address currently holds a total of 97,141 BTC, valued at approximately $7.2 billion, making it the world’s fifth-largest BTC wallet. Based on the price at the time of withdrawal, its average acquisition cost is approximately $51,312 per BTC, with an unrealized profit of roughly $2.175 billion.