Bitcoin prices have dropped to $ 6,000 in 2018 due from a trustee of Mt.Gox panicked "And sell 400 million dollars of bitcoins (BTC), reports suggest this week.

Like several media reports of March 7, Nobuaki Kobayashi has sold more than 35,000 BTC and 34,000 BCH (Bitcoin Cash) to pay the creditors of the defunct purse.

Sales took place through the exchange, each individual sale seems to lower Bitcoin markets Mark Karpeles, former CEO of Mt.Gox, confirmed that the transfers took place between December and February

When the BTC / USD reached $ 5900 on February 6 , Kobayashi had transferred 18,000 BTC ($ 180 million) the day before, reports the warehouse Reverend Alistair Milne. on Twitter on March 7 citing the subreddit of r / mtgoxinsolvency.

Kobayashi himself reported the sales practices at a meeting of creditors the same day, Matt Odell adds.

"They (the trustees) panicked and sold the bottom.The market has absorbed it well," he wrote as a comment.

2 / Complete list of transfers of their portfolio. More than half of the bitcoin that they sold (18k btc) was transferred to an exchange on February 5th. The day before, bitcoin reached its lowest level in three months, or $ 6,000. They panicked and sold the bottom. The market has absorbed well. h / t @alistairmilne pic.twitter.com/obYgbgBHpx – Matt Odell (@matt_odell) March 7, 2018

Cointelegraph also reported on the current Mt L & # 39; FBI investigation on the FBI this week, as an unofficial detective of the British broadcaster, the BBC has increased its suspicions about an alleged London company that could have helped to whiten the bitcoins stolen from the UK. exchange

. Gox was the largest Bitcoin purse in the world until hackers stole about 850,000 BTCs in February 2014. A criminal investigation and refund attempts from users who have lost money are still going on .