Bitifinex
Auteur: r | 2025-04-23
The U.S. Department of Justice DOJ announced in a February 2022 statement that it had successfully seized the majority of the bitcoin drained in a 2016 hack of the cryptocurrency exchange Bitifinex after gaining control of U.S. government Bitcoin holdings by SpotOnChain. Interestingly, SpotOnChain reported the U.S. DOJ s aforementioned activity, as well as hundreds of other U.S. government cryptocurrency transactions. For example, sending Ethereum and USDC tokens one month ago, from the account related to the Bitifinex hack.The U.S. government holds 179,196 BTC,