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What's going on with BTC-e?

The long-dormant bitcoin stash from the defunct BTC-e crypto exchange has been moving on the blockchain for the past two weeks, an anonymous member of a Russian Telegram channel noticed on Thursday. The wallet received 3,299 BTC from the known wallet of BTC-e in November 2022, in the first transaction the BTC-e wallet sent since 2017.

How much bitcoin has BTC-e moved to exchanges and personal wallets?

A crypto wallet belonging to BTC-e has moved 10,000 Bitcoin worth +$165M to exchanges and personal wallets. Read the Chainalysis report.

What is BTC-e & how does it work?

BTC-e was a cryptocurrency trading platform primarily serving the Russian market, with servers located in the United States. The U.S. government seized their website and funds in 2017. It was founded in July 2011 by Alexander Vinnik and Aleksandr Bilyuchenko, and as of February 2015 handled around 3% of all Bitcoin exchange volume.

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