- Mt. Gox moved over $172 million in BTC to new wallet addresses.
- The price of Bitcoin held strong despite bankrupt crypto exchange’s wallet activity.
Bankrupt crypto exchange Mt.Gox has notably transferred about 1,620 Bitcoin to new unknown addresses. The value of the Bitcoin transfer stood at over $172.5 million, and was sent to new addresses.
The transfers happened as BTC price hovered around $107,380, having hit new all-time highs above $107,822. Unlike in the past Mt. Gox transactions of the flagship cryptocurrency, the latest movement hasn’t seen BTC react violently lower. Dormant whales have also woken up, as Arkham Intelligence pointed out in a post on X.
BTC WHALE WAKES UP: MOVES $530M AFTER 3 YEARS
A Whale that has been dormant for over 3 years has just moved $530M of Bitcoin into two new addresses, with one holding $420M and the other holding exactly 1000 BTC (~$107M)
The last time this BTC moved was 3 years ago, in April… pic.twitter.com/uhqKPZEkuD
— Arkham (@arkham) December 16, 2024
Mt.Gox Bitcoin transfers
Two weeks ago, the crypto exchange Mt. Gox made another Bitcoin transfer of 24,000 BTC to unknown wallets. According to Arkham, the bankrupt exchange transferred 1,619.6 BTC in two chunks, one of 1427.9 BTC and the other of 191.7 bitcoin to two new addresses.
Recently, the blockchain security and intelligence platform showed that Mt. Gox’s latest wallet activity also included the transfer of 1427.9 Bitcoin to an address starting with “1DeY. It then transferred 108 BTC and 191.7 BTC through several addresses before the coins ended in the wallet that currently holds 300 Bitcoin.
In November, Mt. Gox transfered $2.2 billion Bitcoin to unknown wallets amid repayment plans. On December 5, Mt. Gox made another Bitcoin transfer. It moved 24,000 BTC worth $2.5 billion a time when BTC was trading at $ 100,000, an all-time high at the time.
Arkham notes the exchange has 36,085 Bitcoin holdings estimated to be worth $3.86 billion. The deadline for creditor repayment will be October 31, 2025.
Despite downside pressure, Bitcoin has recovered from previous Mt. Gox dumps to hit new all-time highs above $100.
The bullish market sentiment is down to multiple catalysts. It includes greater institutional demand for spot Bitcoin ETFs, US election that has a pro-crypto administration in place and the exit of SEC’s Gary Gensler. New pro-crypto picks for the SEC and CFTC will help the push for regularity clarity.
There’s also the buying spree by MicroStrategy and several other companies, including Boyaa Interactive, Metaplanet and the miner industry led by Marathon, Riot and Semler Scientific, are hodling BTC. The companies have adopted the Bitcoin treasury strategy that has seen MicroStrategy become the world’s largest corporate holder of BTC.
