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Speculation has been rampant about the historically massive bitcoin transfer, with many believing that "Bitcoin futures provider" Bakkt and its recently opened "warehouse" for withdrawals and deposits of bitcoins is responsible. Meanwhile, a cryptocurrency analysis company called TokenAnalyst announced that it had traced a third of the bitcoins in question to Huobi, a cryptocurrency exchange in Singapore. Coindesk reached out to a Huobi spokesperson about the matter, and got this response: "Our team is looking into the validity of the claim."

With all this speculation and little in the way of concrete details, everybody with an interest in the situation will probably have to just wait and see what it was all about. But there is one more somewhat interesting point to consider: in case you were wondering what the transaction fee for a transfer of over a billion dollars worth of bitcoins comes out to: 0.06 bitcoins, or about $600 as of this writing.