Bitcoin costs fell as low as $6000 in 2018 due to a Mt.Gox trustee "freezing" and offering $400 mln worth of bitcoins (BTC), reports recommend this week.
As numerous news outlets detailed from March 7, Nobuaki Kobayashi has sold more than 35,000 BTC and 34,000 BCH (Bitcoin Cash) so as to pay the dead trade's loan bosses.
The deals happened by means of a trade, with every individual deal seeming to move Bitcoin markets lower. Previous Mt.Gox CEO Mark Karpeles affirmed the exchanges occurred from December through February.
Whenever BTC/USD hit $5900 Feb. 6, Kobayashi had exchanged 18,000 BTC ($180 mln) the day earlier, business visionary Alistair Milne wrote about Twitter March 7 citing the r/mtgoxinsolvency subreddit.
Kobayashi himself related the offering hones at a lenders' gathering that day, Matt Odell includes.
"They (the trustees) terrified and sold the base. Market retained it well," he composed by method for input.