{"id":914563,"date":"2026-06-21T20:14:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T01:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/21\/u-s-government-moves-bitcoin-seized-from-2016-bitfinex-hack-to-coinbase-prime\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T20:14:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T01:14:30","slug":"u-s-government-moves-bitcoin-seized-from-2016-bitfinex-hack-to-coinbase-prime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/21\/u-s-government-moves-bitcoin-seized-from-2016-bitfinex-hack-to-coinbase-prime\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Government Moves Bitcoin Seized From 2016 Bitfinex Hack to Coinbase Prime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoins TLDR The U.S. government transferred about $606,000 in Bitcoin (8 BTC) linked to the 2016 Bitfinex hack to Coinbase Prime The coins are tied to Ilya Lichtenstein, who stole 119,756 BTC from Bitfinex in 2016, worth ~$72M at the time Federal law requires the seized Bitcoin be returned to Bitfinex&#8230;<br \/> Trader Edge <a href=\"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/u-s-government-moves-bitcoin-seized-from-2016-bitfinex-hack-to-coinbase-prime\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TLDR The U.S. government transferred about $606,000 in Bitcoin (8 BTC) linked to the 2016 Bitfinex hack to Coinbase Prime The coins are tied to Ilya Lichtenstein, who stole 119,756 BTC from Bitfinex in 2016, worth ~$72M at the time Federal law requires the seized Bitcoin be returned to Bitfinex&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":914564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284,2150],"tags":[11476],"class_list":["post-914563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-government","category-moves","tag-bitcoins"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}