🤑 LuBian’s Bitcoin Waltz: $1.8B Vanishes in Crypto’s Wildest Heist Encore! 🎩

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Well, bless my stars and garters! Them LuBian rascals are at it again, shufflin’ 15,959 BTC (that’s a cool $1.83 billion, mind you) across four addresses like it’s a game of digital hot potato. 🤹♂️ This marks their second grand performance in as many weeks, and let me tell ya, it’s stirrin’ up more gossip than a Sunday sermon in a small town. 🕵️♂️

  • LuBian’s phantom wallets whisked away 15,959 BTC, worth a jaw-droppin’ $1.83B, across four addresses-their second encore in a week. 🎭
  • This shindig’s got folks chatterin’ about the 2020 LuBian heist, where 127,426 BTC got swiped in one of crypto’s biggest capers. 🦹♂️

On Oct. 22, them sleuths at OnchainLens hollered about a coordinated shenanigan from four wallets tied to LuBian, that defunct Chinese mining pool with more skeletons in its closet than a haunted house. 👻 The alert showed two transactions of 4,999 BTC each, alongside 3,424 BTC and 2,535 BTC, all skedaddlin’ to separate hideouts.

This comes hot on the heels of another 11,886 BTC ($1.3 billion, if you’re keepin’ score) makin’ a run for it from LuBian’s coffers. Seems like somebody’s got their hands back on the wheel of that ol’ Bitcoin stagecoach. 🚂

A four-year mystery that’s stickier than molasses

This latest hullabaloo’s breathed new life into one of Bitcoin’s most jaw-droppin’ unsolved capers. Back in December 2020, LuBian-once the belle of the mining ball-claimed they got cleaned out of 127,426 BTC, worth $3.5 billion then and a whopping $14.5 billion today. 💸

According to Arkham Intelligence, them varmints exploited a weak spot in LuBian’s private key generator, makin’ off with over 90% of their stash overnight, plus an extra $6 million in Bitcoin and USDT the next mornin’. Talk about a rude awakenin’! ☀️

The irony’s thicker than a Mississippi mud pie: LuBian had just crowned itself the “safest high-yielding mining pool in the world” earlier that year. Guess safety’s in the eye of the beholder. 👀

In a Hail Mary pass, LuBian tried sweet-talkin’ the thief directly on-chain, usin’ Bitcoin’s OP_RETURN function to plead, “To the whitehat savin’ our bacon, give a holler… let’s chat about returnin’ the loot and your reward.” Crickets. 🦗

Meanwhile, this kerfuffle comes right after the DOJ on Oct. 14 announced one of the biggest crypto forfeiture cases in history, takin’ aim at the Prince Holding Group and its founder, Chen Zhi. 🏛️

U.S. prosecutors filed a complaint for roughly $14.4 billion in Bitcoin tied to an alleged international fraud ring. The DOJ claims Zhi and his gang used companies like LuBian to launder dirty money and cook up “clean Bitcoin.” 🧼

Bitcoin’s tradin’ at $107,932 after a 3.88% tumble in the last 24 hours, according to crypto.news. Guess even the king of crypto’s got its ups and downs. 🎢

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2025-10-22 23:07