{"id":86112,"date":"2023-10-23T18:48:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T15:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=86112"},"modified":"2025-09-13T03:26:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T00:26:23","slug":"expert-spots-movement-of-4800-btc-from-the-closed-abraxas-darknet-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/expert-spots-movement-of-4800-btc-from-the-closed-abraxas-darknet-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert spots movement of ~4800 BTC from the closed Abraxas darknet market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unknown actors moved ~4800 BTC ($144 million) from the Abraxas darknet marketplace, whose team carried out an exit scam in November 2015. On-chain sleuth ZachXBT drew attention to it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An entity moved ~4800 BTC ($144M) originating from Abraxas darknet market which exit scammed in Nov 2015 after previously sitting dormant.<\/p>\n<p>They consolidated funds and also deposited to a bitcoin mixer.<\/p>\n<p>This graph shows an example of the movements from one of the addresses. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zVBSs6mrc4\">pic.twitter.com\/zVBSs6mrc4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ZachXBT (@zachxbt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zachxbt\/status\/1716447624318881935?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The expert noted that funds that arrived almost eight years after the initial movements began to accumulate across several wallets. Some were sent to mixing services to launder them.<\/p>\n<p>According to ZachXBT, the transactions are being driven by former administrators of the platform, since the bulk of the assets arrived at addresses at the time of the fraudulent scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Some commentators agreed with his speculation, recalling that at least one hacker recently left prison.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cImagine waiting 8 years, sitting on $1.5 million and watching it grow to $144 million,\u201d wrote one user.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Imagine waiting 8 years and sitting on a 1.5mln an seeing it growing to 144mln.<br \/>Fucking crazy, where did they where from? Cant find any news about the team<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 bacca (@baccapaglierina) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/baccapaglierina\/status\/1716466704358769006?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>ZachXBT stressed that unknown actors are not attempting to sell the cryptocurrency \u2014 they are trying to &#8220;bleach&#8221; the assets, conducting operations as discreetly as possible. <\/p>\n<p>In July, U.S. authorities again <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/9800-btc-moved-from-silk-road\">began moving<\/a> bitcoins, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/u-s-authorities-seize-silk-road%e2%80%91linked-bitcoin-worth-more-than-1-billion-69370-btc\">seized<\/a> from the Silk Road darknet marketplace in November 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In early October, the platform&#8217;s founder Ross Ulbricht <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ross-ulbricht-has-served-the-first-decade-of-two-life-sentences\">began serving the first decade of two life sentences<\/a> handed down in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unknown actors moved ~4800 BTC ($144 million) from the Abraxas darknet marketplace, whose team carried out an exit scam in November 2015. 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