Failed crypto exchange QuadrigaCX wallets move funds for first time in three years

Several Bitcoin wallets associated with the defunct Canadian crypto speech QuadrigaCX person transferred funds aft 3 years of dormancy.

Self-described crypto sleuth ZachXBT reported the question of funds today. The addresses successful question moved funds connected Friday, Dec. 16, and Saturday, Dec. 17.

ZachXBT estimated that 104 BTC ($1.7 million) had been moved. Of that amount, 69 BTC ($1.1 million) was sent to Wasabi — a Bitcoin wallet with a coin mixing service.

The Bitcoin addresses that transferred funds include:

• 1ECUQLuioJbFZAQchcZq9pggd4EwcpuANe
• 1J9Fqc3TicNoy1Y7tgmhQznWrP5AVLXj9R
• 1MhgmGaHwLAvvKVyFvy6zy9pRQFXaxwE9M
• 1HyYMMCdCcHnfjwMW2jE4cv9qVkVDFUzVa
• 1JPtxSGoekZfLQeYAWkbhBhkr2VEDADHZB

Four addresses listed supra person not moved funds since February 2019 — adjacent to the clip of QuadrigaCX’s bankruptcy proceedings and request for creditor protection. One code moved funds considerably aboriginal successful August 2020.

The supra addresses were primitively linked to QuadrigaCX successful 2019. Around that time, QuadrigaCX’s bankruptcy trustee, Ernst and Young, erroneously sent 103 BTC to a QuadrigaCX code that it could not access. That information was publically disclosed, and the crypto assemblage rapidly identified which code made the transaction, on with 4 associated addresses that apt beryllium to QuadrigaCX.

QuadrigaCX’s bankruptcy committee told CoinDesk contiguous that Ernst and Young did not determination the affected balances this play and said that inspectors are “aware Quadriga funds person moved.” Ernst and Young person not commented connected the matter.

It is inactive unclear who mightiness beryllium liable for transferring the funds. QuadrigaCX CEO Gerald Cotten was supposedly liable for maintaining the exchange’s backstage keys, supposedly stored successful an chartless slope information deposit box. However, Cotten was reported dormant successful 2018 and arsenic such, could not person moved the money.

Anyone with a transcript of the keys oregon cognition of that container could person transferred funds. Many skeptics besides support that Cotten faked his death, raising the distant anticipation that Cotten is liable for this weekend’s question of funds.

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