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Bitcoin addresses holding 1 BTC or more reach one million: Glassnode

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Convicted buyers have bought up cheap Bitcoin as prices fell over the course of last year. The number of Bitcoin (BTC) wallet addresses holding one whole BTC or more has surpassed the one million mark.  The one million wholecoiner milestone was reach ed on May 13, according to data from Glassnode. Number of Bitcoin wallets holding more than 1 Bitcoin since inception. Source: Glassnode . As the price of Bitcoin fell more than 65% over the course of last year, the number of wallet addresses holding one Bitcoin or more spiked, with the most notable surges occurring during an acute market crash in June and from November 11, the date that FTX collapsed and subsequently filed for bankruptcy. In total, a whopping 190,000 or so wholecoiners were added from early-February, 2022 as the price of Bitcoin fell from its November 2021 highs.  Glassnode cofounder @Negentropic informed his 54,000 Twitter followers that the best time to buy Bitcoin is when there’s “blood in the streets.” His commen...

US Justice Department sanctioned five people and a Bitcoin address tied to Sinaloa Cartel

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Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage A division of the US Treasury Department known as the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that it has taken action against five individuals. The people in question include citizens of Guatemala and the People’s Republic of China. OFAC decided to sanction the five, as well as two companies based in China, and even a Bitcoin wallet address supposedly belonging to one of the individuals. The OFAC made a move because all of the sanctioned entities supposedly played some role in supplying drug cartels with various ingredients used for opioid creation. Treasury's OFAC just added another BTC address to its sanctions list, coinciding with a DOJ announcement of action against the Sinaloa Cartel https://t.co/5Dtx1KC2cU — @nikhileshde@journa.host (@nikhileshde) April 14, 2023 How did the operation work and who was involved? The Office revealed the names of the sanctioned individuals a...