The United States government moved nearly $600 million in seized Bitcoin from the Silk Road dark web marketplace to a Coinbase wallet Wednesday, according to Arkham Intelligence.
The government moved 10,000 Bitcoin, worth nearly $594 million at the time of transaction, to a wallet tied to Coinbase Prime. It’s not immediately clear whether the United States plans to sell or custody the assets. The transaction follows a previous move of approximately $2 billion worth of Silk Road Bitcoin in late July.
Such large shifts of cryptocy tend to pique investors’ interest—and sometimes even scare them—as they speculate on what may happen next to the asset.
But last month, the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) awarded Coinbase Prime a contract to manage and dispose of its large-cap cryptocy assets. The U.S. government may therefore just be moving the seized assets to a new place of custody.
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