Bitget accuses "professional arbitrage" group of profiting $20 million from VOXEL market manipulation
After trading — and prices — surged in Bitget's market for the thinly traded video game token VOXEL, the company has accused a "professional arbitrage" group of "improperly" profiting $20 million from manipulating the market. A Bitget executive stated on Twitter that they had issued legal demands to eight accounts they said were responsible for "instigating" the unusual trading activity.
$330 million in Bitcoin apparently stolen; laundering spikes Monero price by over 40%
3,250 BTC (~$330 million) were apparently stolen from a bitcoin holder and then quickly moved through multiple exchanges and swapped for the Monero privacycoin. Such a massive swap into Monero was apparently enough to cause the Monero price to spike from around $230 to as high as around $330, before retracting somewhat.