{"id":66683,"date":"2022-09-05T12:52:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T09:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=66683"},"modified":"2025-09-07T02:38:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T23:38:34","slug":"another-5000-btc-moved-from-mt-gox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/another-5000-btc-moved-from-mt-gox\/","title":{"rendered":"Another 5,000 BTC moved from Mt.Gox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 4, an unknown mover transferred another 5,000 BTC (about $96.1 million) linked to the failed cryptocurrency exchange Mt.Gox. The information comes from the Telegram channel <a href='https:\/\/t.me\/gfischannel\/483'>GFiS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The funds were sent to the Kraken exchange. The coins were purchased in 2013 at around $660 per BTC.<\/p>\n<figure class='wp-block-image'><img decoding='async' src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/ceOBNUTqDn9mNUT3W_2vXipRc45SO3O9CSdK87cnzM5OxUAMyZOw8cFs8mV0g4MMk-NFBBX-ISPbGtdeL_f5MsbPr8q3tH40D5UUBvw2uD5HUSwhH6z2VeyTzZnnHPExavP0DqEr5mhxRGrBLg3qv7I' alt='\u041f\u0440\u0438\u0448\u043b\u0438 \u0432 \u0434\u0432\u0438\u0436\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u043e\u0447\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0434\u043d\u044b\u0435 5000 BTC \u0441 Mt.Gox'\/><figcaption>Data: GFiS.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class='wp-block-image'><img decoding='async' src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/RLtd-Rs6Ny6knhzP6lF5AkDye_ZNiqmlivMt3LpbBsqmHdOQ9yA4IHcKzyGYMAQUZ5jEL4I7idUAwNF0MamJU5dCAsBJIfLkIX0GItgyBIL_n8-ouTq3nQoCegx4w4Pz3x2upjw28VQSb3r3Ogktz_o' alt='\u041f\u0440\u0438\u0448\u043b\u0438 \u0432 \u0434\u0432\u0438\u0436\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u043e\u0447\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0434\u043d\u044b\u0435 5000 BTC \u0441 Mt.Gox'\/><figcaption>Data: GFiS.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to the blockchain explorer OXT.me, these bitcoins were moved in internal transfers to <a href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/ergobtc\/status\/1566040292339265536?s=21'>wallets associated with Mt.Gox<\/a>. A number of facts indicate that they most likely belong to Mt.Gox&#8217;s founder <a href='https:\/\/blog.wizsec.jp\/2018\/02\/kleiman-v-craig-wright-bitcoins.html'>Jed McCaleb<\/a>. He sold the platform to Mark Karpeles in 2011.<\/p>\n<figure class='wp-block-image'><img decoding='async' src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/RLtd-Rs6Ny6knhzP6lF5AkDye_ZNiqmlivMt3LpbBsqmHdOQ9yA4IHcKzyGYMAQUZ5jEL4I7idUAwNF0MamJU5dCAsBJIfLkIX0GItgyBIL_n8-ouTq3nQoCegx4w4Pz3x2upjw28VQSb3r3Ogktz_o' alt='\u041f\u0440\u0438\u0448\u043b\u0438 \u0432 \u0434\u0432\u0438\u0436\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u043e\u0447\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0434\u043d\u044b\u0435 5000 BTC \u0441 Mt.Gox'\/><figcaption>Data: GFiS.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The ownership of the assets by McCaleb was indirectly confirmed by Karpeles himself in a private chat with the author of the GFiS channel <a href='https:\/\/t.me\/gfischat\/90318'>in a private conversation with the author of the GFiS channel<\/a>. He insisted, however, that the withdrawal was an &#8216;ordinary private individual&#8217;s transaction&#8217;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class='wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow'>\n<p>\u00abHowever, such a volume of bitcoins is too large for an &#8216;ordinary private individual&#8217;, even for 2011. Transfers of such large sums to exchanges are usually made either for OTC deals, or to &#8216;confuse the traces&#8217;\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In July <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ripple-co-founder-liquidated-his-xrp-holdings\">McCaleb moved all of his XRP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, moves of &#8216;sleeping&#8217; large sums <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/whale-shadows-indicator-signals-likely-bitcoin-price-decline\">have preceded significant corrections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on August 29, 10,000 BTC linked to Mt.Gox moved for the first time since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The day before, the exchange&#8217;s creditors <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/mt-gox-creditors-deny-rumours-of-bitcoin-repayments\">rejected rumors of fund restitution<\/a> in the civil rehabilitation process.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news in our <a href='https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog' target='_blank' rel='nofollow noopener'>Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 4, an unknown mover transferred another 5,000 BTC (about $96.1 million) linked to the failed cryptocurrency exchange Mt.Gox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1783,928,136],"class_list":["post-66683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-jed-mccaleb","tag-mark-karpeles","tag-mtgox"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66685,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66683\/revisions\/66685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}