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Re: Someone just made a $147,239,214 Bitcoin transfer

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Is it possible to know the actual amount of money that exchanged hands?

It is possible to know 194,993.50000004 BTC changed between two addresses - these could be owned by the same individual, could be different accounts for the same individual. Anything else, USD, goats, Yuan, securities, etc that may have been traded would not be reported/recorded in the BTC transfer. edit: corrected by josephagoss, ty

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Re: Someone just made a $147,239,214 Bitcoin transfer

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No. There is no way to know if they paid using cash or tomatoes.

If a cash transaction was made, that would pop up all over the place. $150m doesn't just show up out of nowhere.

Unless you're the federal reserve/hedge fund.

Re: Someone just made a $147,239,214 Bitcoin transfer

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

No. There is no way to know if they paid using cash or tomatoes.

If a cash transaction was made, that would pop up all over the place. $150m doesn't just show up out of nowhere.

I'm sure that there are entities who have $150m in cash lying around. Drug cartels come to mind.

Re: Someone just made a $147,239,214 Bitcoin transfer

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post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If a cash transaction was made, that would pop up all over the place. $150m doesn't just show up out of nowhere.

Unless you're the federal reserve/hedge fund.

If you're the federal reserve, it "pops up out of nowhere" in a sense, but on a public balance sheet. If this was the Fed going long bitcoin, we'll know...

Re: Someone just made a $147,239,214 Bitcoin transfer

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If the map is correct, the first node that saw the transaction is located roughly in Frankfurt, Germany which is a major financial centre. The transaction was made at 5:38 local time which is right around the time the Frankfurt exchange closes. Might be this transaction was done by a larger financial institution closing up shop for the week.

Re: Someone just made a $147,239,214 Bitcoin transfer

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As pointed out on Reddit, this wallet has made several large transactions since September: https://blockchain.info/address/1HBa5ABXb5Yx1YcQsppqwKtaAGFP...

I wonder if it is an early miner, or a certain black pirate...

Apparently people think its the Winklevoss' since they claimed to have bought ~1% of all BTC and the amount moved nicely coincides with about 1%
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