Elon Musk’s SpaceX moves bitcoin for the first time in six months

SpaceX (SPCX) apparently moved bitcoin through their wallets early Wednesday for the first time in about six months in three transfers totaling less than $300 of their $1.16 billion stake that do not indicate any imminent sale.

Data from Arkham Intelligence shows that the largest transfer between addresses labeled as belonging to the company moved 0.00213 BTC, around $135, between two wallets. A second sent 0.00139 BTC, or about $89.

In the third, Coinbase Prime’s escrow service reloaded a SpaceX address with 0.000738 BTC, about $47, the kind of small amount an exchange sends to cover network fees before a larger transaction can be made.

SpaceX went public on June 12 in the largest initial public offering ever recorded, and its filing put the company’s entire bitcoin position on a public balance sheet for the first time. Small moves can draw attention after a stock’s listing, although none of the coins reached an exchange deposit address and none left SpaceX’s control.

The company still holds 18,712 BTC. Transfers of this size are typically routine maintenance tasks: funding a wallet to pay fees, consolidating coins between addresses, or testing a signing setup before moving an actual balance.

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