The wallet of the defunct Tokyo exchange has shifted $170 million worth of bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash—are they set to sell?
Speculation is growing that the trustees for the now-defunct Mt. Gox cryptocurrency exchange are getting set for another significant bitcoin sale.
On April 26, a website that tracks the Mt. Gox cryptocurrency wallets indicated that the trust had shifted a sizable portion of bitcoins and Bitcoin Cash from its wallet, which led many to speculate that Nobuaki Kobayashi, the head attorney for the Mt. Gox trust who’s been dubbed the “Tokyo whale,” is set to unload another lot of the recovered coins.
“Some in the [cryptocurrency] community have been a bit worried about the recent movement of bitcoin out of the Mt. Gox settlement wallets,” wrote Mati Greenspan, senior market analyst at etoro.
“Indeed, it appears that Kobayashi has moved about 16,000 BTC out of cold storage, which may indicate that he’s preparing to sell them on the open market,” Greenspan said.
Mt. Gox trust cryptocurrency balance
If the trustees were to proceed with a sale, it would be the first sizable transaction since the trust dumped nearly $400 million worth of bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash in March.
At current market value, the 16,000 bitcoins BTCUSD, +1.36% and 16,000 Bitcoin Cash are worth a combined $170 million and should the sale happen, onlookers will be scouting for potential price fluctuations.
- Aaron Henkin
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