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Someone Just Destroyed $8.2 Million in Bitcoin—Why?
BTC
BTC/USDT
$84,578.01
+1.40%
$84,578.01
+1.40%
(24s)24h Volume
$20,064,775,430.05
24h H/L
$84,942.45 / $82,874.93
Change: $2,067.52 (2.49%)
Long/Short
57.3%
Long: 57.3%Short: 42.7%
Funding Rate
+0.0022%
Longs pay
Data provided by COINOTAG DATALive data
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Decrypt Editorial(09:19 PM UTC)
1 min read
In brief
- Bitcoin addresses created in 2014 simultaneously transferred a combined 107 Bitcoin worth $8.2 million to a well-known burn address.
- Because funds sent to a burn address have no accessible private key, the funds were permanently destroyed.
- The perfectly synchronized transfers sparked intense intrigue on X, with theories ranging from an AI chatbot glitch to deliberate security triggers.
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