The BTC wallet of the illegal marketplace holding a large amount of Bitcoin has awakened after 9 years! What's happening?

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According to the cryptocurrency research company Arkham Intelligence, an ancient darknet marketplace hosting a huge amount of Bitcoin woke up from its long sleep after nine years and conducted active transactions.

According to the data, the illegal marketplace Nucleus Marketplace, which owns a total of 400 million dollars of Bitcoin, has just woken up from a 9-year sleep and transferred 77.5 million dollars worth of BTC to 3 new wallets a few minutes ago.

There is still 365 million dollars worth of BTC in the wallets of the ancient marketplace.

Nucleus Marketplace was an illegal drug sales site on the darknet, and it shut down its marketplace after its founder was arrested by law enforcement in 2016 or to evade fraud charges.

The Bitcoins in the wallets owned by the marketplace hadn't been moved since that day.

It is not yet known what the activation of the wallets means. However, an important cryptocurrency summit will be held in the USA today, and early in the day, Donald Trump signed an executive order allowing the BTCs seized so far to be added to the USA's Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. This raises the possibility, as unconfirmed information, that the founder of the illegal marketplace has been captured by the USA and that the assets are in the hands of the US government.

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