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195K Bitcoin Transaction

Posted by Unknown on from the found-bitsmaug's-bitcave dept.

First time accepted submitter saidi writes "The Washington Post reports that yesterday a truly massive Bitcoin transaction occurred, from the article: 'In this particular transaction, bitcoins from 15 different Bitcoin addresses were consolidated and sent to address 12sENwECeRSmTeDwyLNqwh47JistZqFmW8. The size of the transaction? 194,993 bitcoins. Given that one bitcoin is worth around $800 right now, the transaction is valued at more than $150 million.'" A researcher did a bit of digging, and it appears that this was the Bitstamp exchange moving their balance around (business appears brisk).

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  1. Re:Ghost transactions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Was this transaction really intended to be secret? "Leaking" the identity seems like a positive PR move for the exchange --- "look how much BTC we handle, and how hot bitcoin transactions are!". Normal sized transactions are already obfuscated by the traffic of normal sized transactions. How many users have $1e8 bitcoin balances to shuffle around just to provide "cover" for this size of transaction --- as though doing so would improve their ability to keep a low profile?

  2. Um, this isn't as amazing as some might think... by JohnA · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is simply good stewardship. One of the largest exchanges (actually not, Bitstamp, rather another ahem Magic: The Gathering Online Exchange site) had a rush of buy orders, so they decided to redeem an address they kept in cold, offline storage to meet demand.

    This is a good thing(tm), as it means that there isn't any fractional deposit factoring going on.