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Dormant Bitcoin Wallet Transfers 114 BTC Worth $7.6M After 11 Years

May 20, 2024 Bitcoin.com

2013

With bitcoin’s price up 6.8% from last week, a dormant bitcoin address from 2013 became active for the first time in over 11 years, transferring 114.42 bitcoins valued at $7.67 million. Sleeping Bitcoin Wallet Awakens After 11 Years, Moves 114 Bitcoins April and May have seen fewer awakenings of long-dormant bitcoin addresses, but some noteworthy […]

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Bitcoin Whale From 2013 Resurfaces, Moves Over 1,000 BTC Worth $61 Million 

May 12, 2024 Bitcoin.com

2013

On May 12, as bitcoin hovered slightly above the $61,000 mark, two dormant bitcoin wallets, inactive for over ten years and eight months, executed transactions totaling 1,000 bitcoins valued at approximately $61.1 million. It appears that both wallets, created on the same day, were owned by the same individual. Dormant for a Decade: Bitcoin Wallets […]

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2014 Bitcoin Whale Awakens, Spends 1,005 BTC Valued at $64 Million After a Decade

May 6, 2024 Bitcoin.com

2014

Contrary to several earlier reports, it has been revealed that not only were 687.33 bitcoins transferred from a dormant 2014 wallet on May 6, 2024, but the owner also appears to have expended a total of 1,005.33 BTC, equivalent to almost $64 million at current exchange rates. 1,005 Bitcoin Worth $64 Million Moved From 2 […]

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250 Bitcoin From 2009 Moved After 12.4 Years — Rare BTC Mined Over a 2-Day Span

April 8, 2022 Bitcoin.com

2009 Bitcoins

On April 7th and 8th, 2022, approximately five bitcoin block rewards mined in 2009 were spent in a concession of transfers. The last time a 2009 block was spent was 1.10 years ago on May 20, 2020. The 250 bitcoin from the latest 2009 spends sat idle for 12.4 years, and the coins were worth […]

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Bitcoin Cold Case: The Tale of the Dormant Wallet With Close to 80,000 BTC From Mt Gox

April 4, 2022 Bitcoin.com

$3.7 billion

For the last 11 years, a mysterious wallet associated with the Mt Gox scandal has sat dormant holding close to 80,000 bitcoin worth $3.7 billion today. While the wallet was once the sixth-largest address a few years ago, today it’s the ninth-largest wallet in terms of bitcoin held, and the funds have never been spent […]

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$540 Million Worth of ‘Sleeping Bitcoins’ From 2014 Move — BTC Possibly Linked to Cryptsy Theft

March 30, 2022 Bitcoin.com

$540 Million

On March 29, blockchain parsers caught a sequence of 11 transactions totaling 11,325 bitcoin moving from unknown wallets created in 2014, to a great number of recipient addresses. Furthermore, the stash of bitcoin worth $540 million today is possibly linked to the Cryptsy theft, according to onchain analytics. 11,325 Bitcoins Move From Dormant 2014 Addresses, […]

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81.79 ‘Sleeping Bitcoin’ From 2011 Worth $3.6M Moved for the First Time in Over a Decade

March 27, 2022 Bitcoin.com

$3.6 million worth

As bitcoin has increased more than 5% in value against the U.S. dollar during the last week, in less than seven days, the 19,000,000th bitcoin will be mined into existence. Meanwhile, on Sunday morning, 81.79 bitcoin worth $3.65 million today and created in 2011, moved for the first time since sitting idle for more than […]

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2 ‘Sleeping Bitcoin’ Block Rewards From 2010 Wake up After Sitting Idle for More Than a Decade

February 18, 2022 Bitcoin.com

2010

During the last week bitcoin’s USD value has shed close to 9% as it slipped from $44,239 per unit two days ago, to below the $40K range on Friday. Meanwhile, in the last 24 hours, two sleeping bitcoin block rewards from 2010 woke up after more than a decade of sitting idle. The 100 bitcoins […]

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Close to $50 Million in Bitcoin From 2011 Moved for the First Time in 10.5 Years

December 30, 2021 Bitcoin.com

1040 bitcoin

On December 29, two addresses from 2011 containing 500 bitcoin each transferred 1,000 coins for the first time in 10.5 years. Furthermore, another wallet from 2011 woke up on Wednesday, moving 40 bitcoin for the first time in over a decade. 1,040 Bitcoin from 2011 Move for the First Time in 10.5 Years On Wednesday, […]

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13,000 BTC Moved in 20 Months — 2010 Mystery Miner Transfers Another String of 20 Decade-Old Block Rewards

November 12, 2021 Bitcoin.com

2010 Block Reward

Two days ago on November 10, a mystery whale transferred 20 block rewards from 2010, which saw the movement of 1,000 decade-old bitcoins worth $68 million at the time of transfer. Two days later on November 12, the miner from 2010 returned once again, in order to transfer another string of 20 block rewards from […]

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