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A Trader So Secret They’re Only Known by a Number Just Made Over $200 Million in One Month

  • Bitcoin, ether may mint new crypto-billionaires this year
  • After Dread Pirate Roberts, mystery still dogs transactions
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Secret New Billionaires Cash in With Cryptocurrencies

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An unknown cryptocurrency trader turned $55 million of paper wealth into $283 million in just over a month.

The only clue about this person or persons, beyond a virtual wallet with the identification code 0x00A651D43B6e209F5Ada45A35F92EFC0De3A5184, surfaced on a June 11 Instagram posting, in Bahasa, in which he or she (or they) (or somebody posing as them) boasted about the 413 percent profit accumulated earlier this year from ether, the digital money of the Ethereum blockchain.