{"id":637807,"date":"2026-08-01T21:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T21:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=836030"},"modified":"2026-08-01T21:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T21:36:14","slug":"coldcard-theft-balloons-to-88m-as-exchange-deposits-spike-old-btc-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/01\/coldcard-theft-balloons-to-88m-as-exchange-deposits-spike-old-btc-moves\/","title":{"rendered":"Coldcard Theft Balloons to $88M as Exchange Deposits Spike, Old BTC Moves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/coldcard-theft-balloons-to-88m-as-exchange-deposits-spike-old-btc-moves-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Coldcard Mk3 image\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>A suspected third wave of Coldcard-related bitcoin sweeps has pushed the observed incident to an estimated 1,367 BTC, while exchange deposits and long-dormant wallet activity have added two more signals for analysts to watch. A Third Wave Expands the Damage Galaxy Research disclosed on X that the three suspected waves drained about 4,585 addresses and [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A suspected third wave of Coldcard-related bitcoin sweeps has pushed the observed incident to an estimated 1,367 BTC, while exchange deposits and long-dormant wallet activity have added two more signals for analysts to watch. A Third Wave Expands the Damage Galaxy Research disclosed on X that the three suspected waves drained about 4,585 addresses and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":637808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-637807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}