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

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

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Post by nwh »

Codhisattva wrote: post #2

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

Changed hands? There's no way of knowing if that happened. This is likely just a wallet being consolidated rather than actual purchase of goods of currency. The only thing we know is that a large number of Bitcoin moved from somewhere to somewhere and it's worth a lot.

Looking at where the funds went from there, they seem to be breaking it up into 4000BTC sections, probably onto paper wallets.

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

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Post by brokentone »

Codhisattva wrote: post #2

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

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

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Post by josephagoss »

brokentone wrote: post #7
Codhisattva wrote: post #2

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

Between two addresses, this transaction could easily be happening inside one wallet.

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

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Post by JonFish85 »

stephanerangaya wrote: post #5
Codhisattva wrote: post #2

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

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.
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