Chinese reporter: China likely sold the $3+ billion in Bitcoin, Ethereum affiliated with PlusToken
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This morning, news broke that there has been a massive development in the PlusToken case.
PlusToken was a 2019-era crypto Ponzi scheme that managed to trick mostly users in Asia into depositing billions worth of Bitcoin, Ethereum, EOS, and a number of other digital assets.
The news released today by The Block found that $4.2 billion worth of cryptocurrency has been seized by lawmakers in China. It was rumored that there were still many of PlusToken’s ringleaders on the run, though this report may have put this rumor to rest.
The holdings that Chinese authorities claim to have seized are substantial: 194,775 BTC, 833,083 ETH, 1.4 million LTC, 27.6 million EOS, 74,167 DASH, 487 million XRP, 6 billion DOGE, 79,581 BCH, and 213,724 USDT.
While these assets only had a value of approximately $2 billion when they were first sent to the scam, they now value at $4.2 billion.
What the report didn’t make clear was whether or not these tokens have been sold.
The crypto market correction in 2019 is rumored to have been caused by an influx of selling pressure of Bitcoin and Ethereum on exchanges like Huobi, seemingly from PlusToken-related addresses. This report appears to have contradicted this, or did it?
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