{"id":14514,"date":"2024-06-25T21:14:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T21:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bitrabo.com\/discover\/?p=14514"},"modified":"2024-06-25T21:14:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T21:14:10","slug":"german-government-selling-bitcoin-holdings-on-crypto-exchanges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bitrabo.com\/discover\/german-government-selling-bitcoin-holdings-on-crypto-exchanges\/","title":{"rendered":"German Government Selling Bitcoin Holdings on Crypto Exchanges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recent data from Arkham Intelligence reveals that the German government is actively reducing its Bitcoin (BTC) holdings by transferring substantial amounts to various cryptocurrency exchanges and wallets. A recent transfer of $24 million worth of Bitcoin highlights the government&#8217;s ongoing strategy that may impact Bitcoin&#8217;s market dynamics.<\/p>\n<h2>Germany&#8217;s Bitcoin Liquidation Strategy<\/h2>\n<p>On June 25, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) moved 900 BTC across three transactions from a government-labeled cryptocurrency wallet. Two transactions of 200 BTC each were sent to Coinbase and Kraken, while a larger transfer of 500 BTC went to an unidentified address labeled as &#8220;139Po.&#8221; This move follows a series of transactions involving $130 million BTC on June 19 and $65 million BTC on June 20.<\/p>\n<p>Arkham Intel reported the recent $24 million BTC sale by the German government, with funds going to Kraken, Coinbase, and the address 139Po. These transactions are part of the government&#8217;s plan to liquidate Bitcoin acquired from seizing assets of the operator of the pirated movie site Movie2k.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts attribute the recent 11.7% monthly and 6.2% weekly decline in Bitcoin&#8217;s price to the ongoing sell-off by the German government. This selling pressure on centralized exchanges (CEXs) is seen as a significant factor influencing Bitcoin&#8217;s weak performance, currently trading above $61,000.<\/p>\n<p>The market could face further pressure in July with the defunct crypto exchange Mt. Gox preparing to repay its creditors with over 140,000 BTC worth $9.4 billion. This additional selling pressure may drive prices down further, although some experts like Alex Thorn from Galaxy Digital believe the market may be overestimating the impact of this selling pressure.<\/p>\n<p>As of now, BTC is trading at $61,159.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent data from Arkham Intelligence reveals that the German government is actively reducing its Bitcoin (BTC) holdings by transferring substantial amounts to various cryptocurrency exchanges and wallets. A recent transfer of $24 million worth of Bitcoin highlights the government&#8217;s ongoing strategy that may impact Bitcoin&#8217;s market dynamics. Germany&#8217;s Bitcoin Liquidation Strategy On June 25, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"slim_seo":{"title":"German Government Selling Bitcoin Holdings on Crypto Exchanges - Bitrabo","description":"Recent data from Arkham Intelligence reveals that the German government is actively reducing its Bitcoin (BTC) holdings by transferring substantial amounts to v"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[448,623,504,3824,1146,3926,5360,1171,506,5359],"class_list":["post-14514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crypto-news","tag-bitcoin","tag-continues","tag-crypto","tag-crypto-exchanges","tag-exchanges","tag-german","tag-german-govt","tag-govt","tag-holdings","tag-offload"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitrabo.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitrabo.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitrabo.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitrabo.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitrabo.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitrabo.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitrabo.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitrabo.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitrabo.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitrabo.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}