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Hacker splits $1.4B Bitcoin into 19 unfrozen wallets

A hacker associated with Binance has successfully divided $1.4 billion worth of Bitcoin across nineteen distinct wallets, rendering them immune to freezing.

CoinDesk

Blockchain tracing by CoinDesk reveals that all 18,270 coins are now distributed among these nineteen addresses.

Notably, seventeen of these wallets each contain precisely 1,000 BTC.

Crucially, since Thursday night, not a single one of these wallets has seen any movement of funds.

This complex division of assets showcases a significant maneuver by the perpetrator.

The total amount involved in this operation is $1.4 billion in Bitcoin.

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