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I don't like walletexplorer for this. Maybe it's just because I haven't used the site, but on blockchain.com, I'm finding 1C4Q1RvUb3bzk4aaLVgGccnSnaHYFdESzY = 58.8~ BTC, 3NZvuAk3Csf1UP1KCmzN9dhiXTwvhTgr9k = .5~ BTC, 1PhBpbED6uEnrvy5s9F9axBZbK8fWAeZdc = 7.1~ BTC

With these added together, going by all of the waybackmachine images where addreses were observably present at one time or another on Voat in reference to donations, we find that "addresses attributed to Voat" seemed to have had a rough total of 66.4 BTC pass through them. Currently, that amount is worth $1.5mil give or take a little. Considering 1C4Q1RvUb3bzk4aaLVgGccnSnaHYFdESzY, for instance, only has .3 BTC in it, I'm guessing the wallet was drained. I had a feeling that "there's 3mil in the wallet" wasn't really accurate. Although, I don't really have anything to defend, so this is more about satisfying my curiosity.

Thanks for responding.

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Thanks for reaching out. I totally missed this 58.8 BTC transaction in my analysis last night. Wow Voat doing 25k BTC transactions at this one walled addy is pretty cool.

It looks like they transferred most of this in 2015 though, when the BTC price was $300 or $400. Yes, a maximum current amount of $1.5mil would make this interesting. Still though, that's not huge huge money if you've worked there for 4 years.

So I guess it's still meh in my book. If you could dig deeper and prove someone still holds this 58.8 and/or this 7.1BTC today though, that'd take it to the next level.

(To add to this, multiple sources estimate Voat taking at least $4k/mo to run, due to poor technical decisions and lack of development/progress over the years)