The German Federal Prison Police Workplace (BKA) on Monday transferred a further 1,500 Bitcoin, valued at almost $95 million, to a number of crypto exchanges, together with Bitstamp, Coinbase, and Kraken.
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This follows a sequence of transactions since June 19, the place the German authorities has moved Bitcoin price roughly $220 million to numerous exchanges, in accordance with knowledge from Arkham.
The German authorities first acquired these Bitcoin after a large-scale seizure in 2013. The BKA confiscated nearly 50,000 Bitcoin, then valued at over $2 billion, from the operators of Movie2k.to, a infamous movie piracy web site lively throughout that interval.
These actions recommend a possible intention by the German authorities to liquidate a few of the Bitcoin within the crackdown.
This transfer by Germany mirrors latest actions by the U.S. authorities, which additionally transferred hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in Bitcoin to exchanges, doubtlessly signalling their intention to promote. In each instances, the transfers have sparked vital hypothesis throughout the Bitcoin group concerning the potential affect on Bitcoin’s market worth.
Regardless of the substantial actions, a lot of the seized Bitcoin stays below the German authorities’s management. Virtually 44,692 Bitcoin, price roughly $2.82 billion, are nonetheless held in authorities wallets. Which means the latest transfers, whereas notable, symbolize a comparatively small portion of the whole holdings.
Because the scenario unfolds, how the Bitcoin market will react to those government-initiated actions stays to be seen.
