Binance hacker splits $1.4 billion of bitcoin into 19 wallets that no one can freeze

CoinDesk · Fri, 30 Oct 2026 04:50:42 GMT

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Excerpt from CoinDesk: “All 18,270 coins sit in 19 wallets, 17 of them holding exactly 1,000 BTC each, and none has moved since Thursday night, a CoinDesk trace of the blockchain shows.”

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