- PeckShield Alert tweeted that the US government is behind the first-largest Bitcoin wallet.
- The wallet holds over $2.46 billion worth of Bitcoin, linked to the 2016 Bitfinex attack.
- The third-largest Bitcoin wallet is held by an investment platform Robinhood.
The US SEC is infamous for cracking down on major crypto exchanges including Binance and Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN), as well as fighting a three years-long lawsuit against Ripple, which has cost the company $200 million. However, crypto analytics platform PeckShield Alert’s investigation suggested that the US government might own the world’s fifth-largest Bitcoin wallet.
#PeckShieldAlert The 5th largest #Bitcoin wallet, holding 94,643 $BTC (worth ~$2.46B currently), is believed to be under the control of the U.S. Government. The seizure address is directly linked to the 2016 #Bitfinex Hack. On February 1st, 2022, 1CGA4s transferred ~567.5 $BTC… pic.twitter.com/J7ai1vVruK— PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) August 29, 2023
According to PeckShield, the fifth-largest BTC wallet holding 94,643 BTC worth nearly $2.46 billion, is directly connected to the Bitfinex Hack in 2016. Moreover, 567.5 BTC, worth about $21.88 million, was moved to the seizure address by 1CGA4s, on February 1, 2022.
The fifth-largest BTC wallet owned by US Govt. by PeckShield
In February 2022, PeckShield tweeted that the Department of Justice (DOJ) assumed control over the account 1CGA4srJbPWhtJb7ezgY6GQf4PKhFuzD9w and has confiscated $3.55 billion worth of Bitcoin associated with the Bitfinex hack. The DOJ’s account for this matter is bc1qazcm763858nkj2dj986etajv6wquslv8uxwczt. Approximately 120,000 Bitcoins were unlawfully taken in 2017, originally valued at $75 million, and now, six years later, their worth has surged to $3.6 billion.
Forbes published a report in June that highlighted the US Treasury holding 207,189 BTC valued at $5 billion, “by far the largest such state-owned hoard.” Additionally, Morgan Creek Capital investment advisor, Sachin Jaitly’s doctorial thesis revealed that the US owned 69,640 BTC, “94% of the bitcoin in global government coffers at the time.”
Meanwhile, wallet data from Arkham Intelligence disclosed that the trading platform Robinhood holds over $3 billion BTC collected in a single wallet gained over a number of months.
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