With Nicehash being down for "maintenance" there has been some speculation about an odd bitcoin transaction which happened right around the same time.
A wallet which started out with a balance of .01 BTC yesterday, had a very large influx equaling 4736.42 BTC which is 59,789,855.35 USD.
for those interested, here is the wallet
https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/address/1EnJHhq8Jq8vDuZA5ahVh6H4t6jh1mB4rq
Pretty crazy amount right?
The rumor that NH had been hacked has been floating around on the discord since early this morning, which spread to twitter then facebook.
I had an alternate thought tho, while it is a stretch, what if there was something that went wrong on the back end and they had to do an Oh Shit maneuver and just yank everything out to a safe location?
here is to hoping that we hear something soon.
I know that the internal NH wallets wont necessarily appear on the blockchain, so actually looking up if your BTC still exists is kinda not going to happen. I had .01 BTC on there, which sucks but really not that huge of a loss, Fortunately the bulk of my stash is kept in a hard wallet.
Guess its time for me to switch to another platform. I liked NH because... well... Im lazy and very new to the scene. Lesson learned and time to move forward.