For the first time since 2013, a connection was established between 10,000 BTC, which started to move on August 29, and the bankrupt crypto exchange Mt. This is reported by the GFiS Telegram channel.

According to available information, the same wallet appears in each of the transaction chains associated with both withdrawals, which accepted 134,000 BTC from Mt.

The founders of the later BTC-e exchange and its successor, WEX, were suspected of organizing the hack.

“Given the current events with the leaders of these two exchanges, it is possible that old piggy banks were opened under the influence of law enforcement if they were involved in the summer cyberattack. If these are other people, then such a coincidence in dates still seems quite curious, ”wrote the authors of GFiS.

ForkLog has previously reported that historically, the movement of large sums that have long been dormant has preceded significant corrections.

Recall that Mt.Gox, once the largest bitcoin exchange, collapsed in early 2014. This happened after information emerged regarding the alleged hacking and theft of 800,000 BTC ($480 million at the time).

In December 2018, the former head of the platform, Mark Karpeles, in a closing speech in a Tokyo court, pleaded not guilty to the events that led to the loss of millions of customers and the collapse of the company.

The investigation revealed that nearly half of the bitcoins stolen from Mt.

Recently, the exchange’s creditors denied rumors about the repayment of funds as part of the civil rehabilitation process.

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