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39.6K BTC transferred on July 31st after the coldcard hack

stackernews-39k-btc-moved

https://stacker.news/items/1538630

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2026-08-02
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0xbitcoiner quoting a comparison that 39.6K BTC moved on 31 July, the most in a day since the FTX collapse, attributed to the incident's sweep traffic. Reported chain statistic; the underlying account is the quoted source's. Captured through the site's public GraphQL API: the rendered pages crash the capture tab, and the API answers POST from this host. The query fixes the captured surface to the item's title, text and two levels of comments, each with author and absolute timestamp.

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          "comments": {
            "comments": [
              {
                "createdAt": "2026-08-02T21:26:14.796Z",
                "text": "Cold Card affected a lot less people so this is probably an indication there are a lot more plebs now and they have more sats than in 2022.",
                "user": {
                  "name": "grayruby"
                }
              },
              {
                "createdAt": "2026-08-02T22:38:33.678Z",
                "text": "Given the number people have estimated were stolen, does this indicate a vast majority were able to move in time? Assuming a decent amount of the movements were coldcard users.",
                "user": {
                  "name": "Lobotomite"
                }
              },
              {
                "createdAt": "2026-08-03T04:59:39.491Z",
                "text": "It is certainly a regrettable situation; many people lost all their Bitcoin. This is terrifying.",
                "user": {
                  "name": "FallingD02"
                }
              },
              {
                "createdAt": "2026-08-02T19:34:00.489Z",
                "text": "https://twiiit.com/jjcmoreno/status/2083768184176324737",
                "user": {
                  "name": "nitter"
                }
              }
            ]
          },
          "createdAt": "2026-08-02T19:33:03.248Z",
          "text": "> The Bitcoin plebs had not move this amount of BTC in a day since the FTX collapse.\n>\n> 39.6K BTC transferred on July 31st after the coldcard hack, 39.9K BTC transferred on November 16 2022, a few days after the FTX collapse.\n>\n> These are Bitcoin transfers < 1 BTC.\n>\n> I like to see that people seem to be taking action.\n>\n> ![](https://m.stacker.news/150578)\n>\n> https://x.com/jjcmoreno/status/2083768184176324737",
          "title": "39.6K BTC transferred on July 31st after the coldcard hack",
          "user": {
            "name": "0xbitcoiner"

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