
12,267 Seized Bitcoin Move to Unlabeled Addresses, No Sale Shown
A single transaction emptied about $1.01 billion from a wallet holding 2016 Bitfinex hack proceeds. The accounts of where it went do not agree.
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A single transaction emptied about $1.01 billion from a wallet holding 2016 Bitfinex hack proceeds. The accounts of where it went do not agree.

US spot bitcoin funds shed about $485 million on Wednesday and turned the month negative. Two flow providers published two different totals.

Bitcoin broke below $84,000 in the Tuesday-night session and four outlets published four different liquidation totals. Spot bitcoin and ether funds moved opposite ways.

The Japanese treasury company disclosed a round trip it says was done to prove its bitcoin can be turned into cash. It ended the quarter with 44,000 BTC.

Bitcoin traded near $85,400 on Tuesday, a year to the day after its $126,000 high. Two accounts put the drawdown at 32% and differ on where the low sat.

Bitcoin reached just under $86,950 on Monday and was back below $86,000 within hours. Its 100-day average is one crossover from a full bullish stack.

A patch merged on 25 September stops Bitcoin Core signing SIGHASH_SINGLE inputs with no matching output. Accounts disagree on whether any release carries it.

Utexo, which raised $7.5 million in a round led by Tether, will issue USDT on Bitcoin's base layer in October. Tether cannot freeze a UTXO, so a blacklist does the work.

The $85,000 asks came off the book on Friday and bitcoin traded as high as $87,000. US September payrolls came in at 29,000 against forecasts near 90,000.

US spot bitcoin ETFs drew $2.65 billion of net inflows in September, against $3.52 billion in August. Ether funds took $832.43 million.

CoinMarketCap greeted the new month by telling followers that September spending returns 100x in October. Bitcoin traded near $84,800 on Thursday after a green September. The seasonal record behind the slogan is strong, uneven and one year out of date.

Citi raised its 12-month bitcoin target to $113,000 from $82,000 and its ether target to $3,028, pricing in $5 billion of ETF inflows over the year.