According to a user from Twitter with the nickname "Whale Alert," almost 19,000 bitcoins (BTC) were withdrawn from cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex for the last 12 hours.
The first massive withdraw appeared at 10:43:55 UTC on Thursday, April 25th.
🚨 🚨 3,999 #BTC (20,668,499 USD) transferred from #Bitfinex to unknown wallet
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) April 25, 2019
Tx: https://t.co/pMp7mgbfNI
On Friday, the withdrawal process was continued with another 13,377 BTC.
🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 13,377 #BTC (70,350,098 USD) transferred from #Bitfinex to unknown wallet
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) April 26, 2019
Tx: https://t.co/giyoVxsISd
In total, users withdrew 18,956 BTC, 501,864 ether (ETH), 7,137,903 ripple (XRP) and 1,500 maker (MKR) or approximately $320 million if fiat.
Earlier, NYAG's attorney general, Letitia James, announced that she had received a court order against Bitfinex operator iFinex Inc. as well as against Tether, ordering them to stop violating New York law and defrauding the city's investors.
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