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Topic: 100,000+ BTC moved into segwit addresses - page 2. (Read 551 times)

legendary
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December 03, 2018, 11:00:25 PM
#12
it could be said that whales trust segwit, or at least some whales do.

that is a very silly way of thinking in my opinion.
SegWit is either safe or not. there is no middle ground and people shouldn't look to others (specially whales who only care about making money) to decide.
not to mention that if there was any kind of vulnerability in SegWit it would have been already exploited! it has been 1.5 years already.

this in my opinion is someone who has been either waiting for forks to finish so that he can claim them (since many of them didn't support SegWit) or he upgraded his wallet to something that supports Bech32 recently and is taking advantage of the fact that fees are currently low. (never mind, the fees aren't low Tongue)
newbie
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December 03, 2018, 09:25:23 PM
#11
this is a great new. but how you find this information?
member
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December 03, 2018, 07:27:18 PM
#10
I like these forms of speculation, because it's just that, speculation. We can see the movements, but only guess who they belong to, and what the intentions are. That's the true power of Bitcoin.

It seems that the coins have been transferred to Segwit addresses for the sole reason of enjoying lower fees, because moving coins back and forth that often is quite a costly practice. It's probably an exchange or OTC desk creating smaller blocks of coins to be sold.

What if this turns out to be Bakkt setting up their shit? Bakkt won't wait till the last moment to accumulate coins, they do it well before they actually launch, and the market is well positioned at current levels to allow further accumulation at lower levels.

No shortage of theories.  Cheesy

The pristine coins that haven't been touched are well known, say pre 2012

This OP doesn't really say anything, on a bad year BITMAIN takes in this many coins

Lastly, as LEO has proved mixers don't work, there is nothing that PALANTIR(CIA) cannot track on the block-chain.

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IMHO if this is true, and like most things here I assume its just another lie, but if its true it could be just a normal whale reducing his exposure to hacking, say I hack one address with 100k coin, its far better for them to own 100k addresses with one coin, that way they can sleep at night knowing that they'll always have 99% with no risk of losing 100%.


Hackers can & do hack bitcoin, I hit 0.01 btc accounts infrequently, but 0.05 are the most common HODLR 'moron' ownership amount, and of course 0.001 are like flies on feces
legendary
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December 03, 2018, 07:17:58 PM
#9
What if this turns out to be Bakkt setting up their shit? Bakkt won't wait till the last moment to accumulate coins, they do it well before they actually launch, and the market is well positioned at current levels to allow further accumulation at lower levels.

are you sure it works like that? that might make sense for an ETF trust but i don't think it does here. bakkt (and the ICE clearing company) are acting as central counterparty and custodian. ordinarily in futures markets, the central counterparty wouldn't need to accumulate anything themselves because trading counterparties will be depositing funds into the vaults.
legendary
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December 03, 2018, 06:57:15 PM
#8
I like these forms of speculation, because it's just that, speculation. We can see the movements, but only guess who they belong to, and what the intentions are. That's the true power of Bitcoin.

It seems that the coins have been transferred to Segwit addresses for the sole reason of enjoying lower fees, because moving coins back and forth that often is quite a costly practice. It's probably an exchange or OTC desk creating smaller blocks of coins to be sold.

What if this turns out to be Bakkt setting up their shit? Bakkt won't wait till the last moment to accumulate coins, they do it well before they actually launch, and the market is well positioned at current levels to allow further accumulation at lower levels.

No shortage of theories.  Cheesy
full member
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December 03, 2018, 02:57:01 PM
#7
maybe are the one that are making the bitcoin cash war xD
legendary
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Blackjack.fun
December 03, 2018, 02:54:53 PM
#6
Anyhow, it could be said that whales trust segwit, or at least some whales do.

Yeah, one fat whale...



At least two of the initial funding for those addresses are from this list

Of course, it's just speculation as nobody, even prosecutors weren't able to find proof about the missing coins but...
legendary
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December 03, 2018, 02:44:28 PM
#5
100,000+ bitcoin being moved in smaller batches would certainly freak me out
if I was doing it, would be a nice position to be in.

I doubt it is for dumping at this time as we all know its the wrong time, it might
be to shake up the market and create speculation like this thread.

Interesting all the same and interesting how this thread goes.
sr. member
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December 03, 2018, 02:23:15 PM
#4
Well, there's some scenarious possible here.
First, this might be an old hodler who's trying to deposit his btc into exchangers and dump them.. or it might be a miner trying to dump hard without making peoples know about that.. he turned to be stupid somehow (lol).
Second, it might be a whale, a real whale trying to make his btc invisible and hard to track.. umm, maybe a scam scheme or a scammer or a hacker..
Finally, it might be one of the old supporters of btc, trying to make us cry, fear.. so there will be a bigger dump and this supporter will buy and make his bags even bigger.
legendary
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December 03, 2018, 01:41:22 PM
#3

A while ago I used to transfer my funds to paper wallets and I felt safer splitting them into many, many different addresses. After a while, I decided to split them into unequally valued paper wallets so I had a bunch of 0.01BTC papers, a bunch of 0.05BTC papers etc.. his funds might have been sent to cold/paper wallets, or who knows. Might be another rich holder securing his funds. Upon looking up the addresses I couldn't find any other results except the transactions you've also linked here.

But if he wanted privacy, he would use a mixer, and he wouldn't definitely split them into exact 254 BTC amounts. Now everyone knows he owns all these coins, he just split them into a bunch of different addresses. He needs to do a couple more passes into different amounts. Perhaps he is going to mix all of these bech32 254 BTC addresses using a mixer, since it's impossible to mix 25,000 BTC at once, it's too much, so he may dividing into smaller batches. Wow that must be such an headache to sort all these addresses out. Rich people problems I guess
legendary
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December 03, 2018, 01:12:21 PM
#2

A while ago I used to transfer my funds to paper wallets and I felt safer splitting them into many, many different addresses. After a while, I decided to split them into unequally valued paper wallets so I had a bunch of 0.01BTC papers, a bunch of 0.05BTC papers etc.. his funds might have been sent to cold/paper wallets, or who knows. Might be another rich holder securing his funds. Upon looking up the addresses I couldn't find any other results except the transactions you've also linked here.
legendary
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