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Someone Just Destroyed $8.2 Million in Bitcoin—Why?
BTC
BTC/USDT
$64,665.99
+0.85%
$64,665.99
+0.85%
(24s)24h Volume
$18,293,205,719.30
24h H/L
$65,176.60 / $63,267.34
Change: $1,909.26 (3.02%)
Long/Short
57.5%
Long: 57.5%Short: 42.5%
Funding Rate
+0.0054%
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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