Echoes of Bitcoin’s Genesis: Reflecting on 2024’s Rare 2009 Wallet Movements

January 6, 2025 Bitcoin.com

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2024 was an extraordinary year for bitcoin, marked by an event of historical significance: the movement of five block rewards from 2009, which had remained untouched since they were mined. Last Year’s Genesis Echo On Sept. 20, 2024, between block heights 862,079 and 862,087, five ancient coinbase rewards, collectively worth 250 BTC, were spent. Bitcoin […]

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Bitcoin’s top 100 ‘dustiest’ wallets contain over $88M in BTC

July 15, 2024 Coin Telegraph

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More than $88 million is held in the top 100 Bitcoin wallets, which are classified as containing a “minuscule amount” of BTC.

The top 100 “dustiest Bitcoin addresses” hold more than $88 million worth of BTC, accumulating more than 530 BTC since January 2023.

Dusty addresses refer to wallets that contain “minuscule amounts” of Bitcoin (BTC) (

These addresses hold a total of about 1,380 BTC, according to data from BitInfoCharts.

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9 Dormant Bitcoin Wallets Reactivate, Moving $7.5M Amid BTC Price Drop

July 5, 2024 Bitcoin.com

9 Dormant Bitcoin Wallets Reactivate, Moving .5M Amid BTC Price Drop

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While bitcoin’s price was at $60,382 on July 3, it dropped significantly to $53,550 two days later before rebounding back to $56,642 by 12:50 p.m. EDT on July 5. Notably, nine dormant bitcoin wallets created in 2013, 2016, and 2017 became active on Friday, moving 133.41 BTC valued at $7.5 million. The initial three wallets, […]

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Bitcoin’s Third Largest Wallet Changed Hands, but Onchain Data Shows It’s Likely the Same Owner

December 4, 2022 Bitcoin.com

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Last year and during the first half of 2022, speculators assumed the third-largest bitcoin address was a ‘mysterious whale,’ even though the wallet had shown strong characteristics of being a cryptocurrency exchange. The address known as “1P5ZED” has since been replaced by another address, after the wallet started to transfer its entire bitcoin balance in […]

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Onchain Analysis Verifies the Number of BTC Held by Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust

November 24, 2022 Bitcoin.com

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After Grayscale Investments shared information concerning the company’s product holdings, people questioned why the firm wouldn’t share the public addresses associated with the crypto assets it holds. However, on Nov. 23, OXT researcher Ergo published a Twitter thread featuring onchain forensics that confirm Coinbase Custody holds a balance of 633K bitcoin that likely belongs to […]

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