German Gov’t Accelerates Sell-Offs With $900M BTC Unloaded In Just 8 Hours — Deeper Price Pullback Ahead?

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Rogue trader crashes Bitcoin to $8900 on BitMEX in massive sell-off event

BitMEX is investigating an unusual activity involving “a user selling large orders” on its Bitcoin spot market. Yesterday, several market observers identified a rogue seller who unloaded more than 400 BTC on the BitMEX exchange.

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Mt. Gox Trustee Confirms He Sold off $230 Million in Cryptocurrency

A man known as “Tokyo Whale,” for the enormous amount of bitcoin he controls, confirms he unloaded another big chunk of it earlier this year. Nobuaki Kobayashi, the trustee of now-defunct Tokyo exchange Mt.

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SoftBank Denies Reports of Bitmain Deal; Bitmain Still Silent

Japanese telecom giant SoftBank has denied media reports of its involvement in a pre-IPO funding round of bitcoin mining rig manufacturer Bitmain. Last week, several media outlets had reported that SoftBank and Chinese internet giant Tencent were leading a pre-IPO funding round for Bitmain.

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Trouble on the Horizon? What Last Weekend’s Ruckus Means for Bitmain’s IPO

Over the weekend, information surfaced that could suggest that mining giant Bitmain may be facing an uphill battle as it looks to launch an IPO on the Hong Kong stock exchange.

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