Bitcoin Cold Case: The Tale of the Dormant Wallet With Close to 80,000 BTC Fr...

Bitcoin Cold Case: The Tale of the Dormant Wallet With Close to 80,000 BTC Fr...

For the last 11 years, a mysterious wallet associated with the Mt Gox scandal has sat dormant holding close to 80,000 bitcoin worth $3.7 billion today. While the wallet was once the sixth-largest address a few years ago, today it’s the ninth-largest wallet in terms of bitcoin held, and the funds have never been spent since the first deposit on March 1, 2011. The Mysterious ‘1Feex’ Wallet and 79,957 Bitcoins On April 1, reports claimed that 6,800 bitcoin had moved from the Mt Gox cold wallet, but later the wallet was identified as F2pool’s cold wallet.....


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