{"id":14632,"date":"2019-06-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/2019\/06\/09\/bitcoin-btc-1-5m-of-stolen-bitfinex-funds-changes-btc-address-bitfinex-denies-involvement\/"},"modified":"2019-06-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T00:00:00","slug":"bitcoin-btc-1-5m-of-stolen-bitfinex-funds-changes-btc-address-bitfinex-denies-involvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/bitcoin-btc-1-5m-of-stolen-bitfinex-funds-changes-btc-address-bitfinex-denies-involvement\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin [BTC] \u2013 $1.5M of Stolen Bitfinex Funds Changes BTC Address, Bitfinex Denies Involvement"},"content":{"rendered":"
185 bitcoins, currently worth about $1.5 million have been on the move from one unknown bitcoin address to several others. The bitcoins have been identified to be a portion of those that were stolen back in August 2016 from the Bitfinex exchange. A total of 120,000 bitcoins valued at $66 million at the time of the hack (now worth about $973 million) were stolen and have since been sitting still. The transfers, which totaled to six and reported by the Twitter bot <\/span>Whale Alert<\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span>, only represent about 0.15% of the total BTC stolen.<\/span><\/p>\n The BTC was tracked on Friday, May 7<\/span>th<\/span><\/sup> starting<\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span> at 06:08 AM UTC and the sixth transaction recorded at around 19:47 UTC. The transfers were denominated in varying amounts with no two equal amounts being transferred. The largest transfer was for 80.94 BTC worth about $640,000 and the least was 17.03 BTC worth about $135,000.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n