Hut 8-Linked Wallet Deposits 1,589 BTC to Exchanges
The transfers equal about 15% of Hut 8's reported 10,278 BTC holdings, putting potential treasury selling in focus.
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The transfers equal about 15% of Hut 8's reported 10,278 BTC holdings, putting potential treasury selling in focus.
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1.2K $BTC (≈98.7M) moved from Coinbase Institutional to unknown new wallet.
1.2K $BTC (≈99.9M) moved from unknown wallet to Coinbase Institutional.
Hougan's case rests on Bitcoin's potential role as a scarce asset and on demand from ETFs, advisers, companies and sovereign buyers.
Bitcoin is the world's first decentralized cryptocurrency, created in 2009 by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto.
Bitcoin (BTC) launched on 2009-01-03.
Bitcoin (BTC) is categorised as: Smart Contract Platform, Layer 1 (L1), FTX Holdings.
The official Bitcoin site is http://www.bitcoin.org.
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