Ether Price Spikes Further on Reports of Bybit Starting to Buy ETH

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Ether Price Spikes Further on Reports of Bybit Starting to Buy ETH

The price of the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency, ether (ETH), has risen by more than 2.3% in the last 24 hours, while the broader CoinDesk 20 Index has risen by just 0.76% during the same *******. Bitcoin is down around 0.3%.

The rise comes amid reports that Bybit, the cryptocurrency exchange that

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worth of ether and staked ether by North Korean hacking group Lazarus, has moved 100 million USDT into new addresses and moved half of that into addresses to purchase 36,900 ETH over-the-counter.

The funds, worth around $101 million, were then moved to addresses tagged as belonging to the cryptocurrency exchange, crypto journalist Colin Wu

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, citing, Arkham Intelligence data. Bybit’s CEO Ben Zhou reportedly said in an “ask me anything” session that the company’s assets are “far greater than $1.5 billion,” adding that “there is a cold wallet in safe with nearly 3 billion US dollars in USDT,” according to

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Bybit’s hacker is now holdings an estimated 489,000 ETH valued at approximately $1.34 billion, around 0.4% of ether’s total supply, which makes it the

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The addresses associated with the hacker are now closely monitored in the space and are blacklisted by major cryptocurrency exchanges.

“The stolen funds have already been marked, making it extremely difficult for the hacker to use them. Any attempt to transfer these funds to a major exchange would result in an immediate block,” StealthEX CEO Maria Carola told CoinDesk.

Since the hacker may not be able to use the funds in any way, some analysts are

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that the 0.4% of the ETH supply it holds is “essentially gone.”

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