Notorious cryptocurrency exchange desk Mt. Gox, which went down in 2014, along with 850,000 of its users' Bitcoin (EXANTE: Bitcoin), has transferred 16,000 Bitcoin and 16,000 Bitcoin Cash to two separate addresses, according to a Mt. Gox cold wallet monitor CryptoGround.
This is the first time that Mt. Gox has moved any of its coins since February.
Prior to this development, Mt. Gox had unloaded approximately half a billion dollars worth of Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash in the period between December 2017 and February 2018.
At present, the Gox addresses still hold roughly 146,106 BTC, blockchain data shows.
Earlier in April, Mt. Gox ex-CEO Mark Karpeles claimed that he “doesn’t want” the 160,000 BTC that will reportedly be left over after the exchange repays its creditors.
Karpeles said he hoped to return all that money to the exchange’s more than 24,000 creditors.
The world’s largest Bitcoin exchange based in Japan, Mt. Gox filed for bankruptcy in 2014 after thousands of Bitcoins belonging to customers were found to be missing.
Karpeles, who had been running the exchange since 2011, was arrested by Japanese police in 2015, and spent time in jail.
By Siranush Ghazanchyan