Wake up call? Bitcoin wallets move 3,500 BTC dormant since 2011
A Bitcoin whale has moved 3,500 BTC to new wallets for the first time since 2011, changing the address format from P2PKH to P2SH. Amid the ongoing market turbulence for Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies, some big investors are waking up to move their BTC holdings that were untouched for about a decade. According to on-chain data, seven dormant Bitcoin wallets awakened on Nov. 11 to move a total of 3,500 BTC ($60,6 million) to new addresses. A transaction fee for one of these 500 BTC transactions ($8.7 million) amounted to just 0.00011383 BTC, or $2.Blockchain researcher and....
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Last week Bitcoin.com News reported on two old bitcoin addresses created in 2013 sending 10,001 bitcoin to a myriad of wallets. Heuristics and clustering techniques indicate that the bitcoins were associated with Mt Gox, roughly around the same time the exchange was hacked in June 2011. Five days later, 5,000 bitcoins were transferred from a wallet created on the same day in 2013, and the stash of coins were also connected to Mt Gox in some type of fashion.
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Another 5,000 so-called ‘sleeping....
Another bitcoin wallet containing millions of dollars worth of BTC has come out of dormancy. As time goes on, more and more of these wallets are being reactivated by their owners who have, for one reason or another, not transacted using these wallets for years despite having what is considered life-changing money in them. This one has not had any activity on it in over nine years and has now activated after a long stretch of dormancy. Whale Wallet Activates Whale Alert, a service that posts activity from wallets with large holdings, reported on Sunday that a dormant bitcoin wallet had....
On Nov. 11, amid the confusion concerning troubled crypto companies like FTX and Blockfi, 3,500 ‘sleeping bitcoins’ from a wallet created on Oct. 7, 2011, moved for the first time in over 11 years.
$60 Million Worth of 11-Year-Old Bitcoins Move Amid the Crypto Market Rout
A large string of so-called ‘sleeping bitcoins’ moved on Friday morning (ET) after remaining idle for more than 11 years. The 3,500 BTC worth over $60 million stemmed from seven different BTC addresses created on Oct. 7, 2011. It is the first large string of decade-old sleeping....
Around 1.8 million Bitcoin has been dormant for over a decade. A significant amount of Bitcoin's (BTC) total supply has not moved for more than 10 years, according to data from cryptocurrency analytics data provider Glassnode.During this decade-long interim, 1.8 million Bitcoin (of the current 18.5 million supply) has been locked in dormant Bitcoin addresses. Its cumulative value amounts to more than $23 billion at the time of publication, according to data from Coin360.BTC dormant over 10 years. Source: GlassnodeA large portion of these coins may belong to Bitcoin’s mysterious creator,....
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