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Recovered 61 BTC from vanished Intersango exchange worth $4.8M

A former Intersango customer successfully recovered 61 BTC, proving old balances can yield millions despite the exchange closing over a decade ago.

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As of 2026-09-03 10:42 UTC. Market figures are as the cited sources reported them at that time and may have moved since. This is news, not investment advice.
CEL Solicitors states it has traced more than 5,500 BTC that it believes belong to former users of Intersango, an early Bitcoin exchange that disappeared more than a decade ago. [1] One former UK customer recovered 61 BTC from the exchange's remains, settling the case on May 28 after instructing CEL on Jan. 20. [2] During the reported trading session, Bitcoin's price rose above $77,500. [3] Bitcoin's pseudonymous nature makes it challenging to analyze user-level activity because a single user may control multiple identifiers known as addresses. [4] The authors propose a method for refining heuristic-obtained clusters by grounding the clustering on contrastive embeddings yielded by graph neural networks. [5] At Bitcoin's current price near $78,824, the traced coins carry a value of roughly $433.5 million. [6] The recovered 61 BTC are now worth about $4.81 million. [7] All major cryptocurrencies advanced during the reported trading session. [8] Global investors were carrying the lowest currency hedges on U.S. assets since 2015 at the time of the report. [9] Current heuristic-based methods are prone to errors such as merging different users together. [10] The researchers release a publicly available dataset of Bitcoin transaction graphs containing a substantial number of clusters. [11] The cryptocurrency market's weekly performance was negative for the week that includes the reported trading session. [12]
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  1. CEL Solicitors states it has traced more than 5,500 BTC that it believes belong to former users of Intersango, an early Bitcoin exchange that disappeared more than a decade ago. · cryptoslate.com
  2. One former UK customer recovered 61 BTC from the exchange's remains, settling the case on May 28 after instructing CEL on Jan. 20. · cryptoslate.com
  3. During the reported trading session, Bitcoin's price rose above $77,500. · coindesk.com
  4. Bitcoin's pseudonymous nature makes it challenging to analyze user-level activity because a single user may control multiple identifiers known as addresses. · arXiv.org
  5. The authors propose a method for refining heuristic-obtained clusters by grounding the clustering on contrastive embeddings yielded by graph neural networks. · arXiv.org
  6. At Bitcoin's current price near $78,824, the traced coins carry a value of roughly $433.5 million. · cryptoslate.com
  7. The recovered 61 BTC are now worth about $4.81 million. · cryptoslate.com
  8. All major cryptocurrencies advanced during the reported trading session. · coindesk.com
  9. Global investors were carrying the lowest currency hedges on U.S. assets since 2015 at the time of the report. · coindesk.com
  10. Current heuristic-based methods are prone to errors such as merging different users together. · arXiv.org
  11. The researchers release a publicly available dataset of Bitcoin transaction graphs containing a substantial number of clusters. · arXiv.org
  12. The cryptocurrency market's weekly performance was negative for the week that includes the reported trading session. · coindesk.com
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