Another Mysterious String of 1,000 ‘Satoshi Era’ Bitcoins Mined in 2010 Moved...
On November 7 at around 12:37 a.m. (EST), another string of so-called ‘sleeping bitcoins’ were moved for the first time since 2010. The peculiar movement stemmed from 20 blocks from 2010 with approximately 1,000 BTC spent ($15.5 million) in a single block. **Update 10:20 a.m. EST: Seven hours prior on Nov. 6, 2020, a 2010 coinbase reward mined on July 29, was transferred. This block reward, if included with the 20 block rewards spent at block height 655,788, the tally would make a total of 21 spent block rewards. The last coinbase reward strings spent in mid-March and....
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On December 27, at around 2 a.m. in the morning (EST), another large string of decade-old sleeping bitcoins was transferred. The miner spent 20 block rewards that were originally mined in 2010, and also spent the corresponding bitcoin cash block rewards as well. The bitcoins moved are worth well over $27 million using today’s exchange rates. **Update: At approximately 3:10 p.m. (EST) at block height 663,241 another 2010 block reward was spent, making it an aggregate total of 21 decade-old block rewards on December 27, 2020. Most strings of 2010 spent blocks this year have been....
Since 2021 began, there have been a slew of suspicious whale moves by miners that mined bitcoins in the early days. A miner in particular has spent 11,000 bitcoin since last year, and 1,000 bitcoin from 2010 was moved last week. Despite the fact that Satoshi Nakamoto is thought to have mined over a million […]
Throughout 2021, a great number of mysterious whale movements from miners who mined bitcoins in the early days have occurred. This week, 1,000 bitcoin from 2010 were transferred, and the miner has spent 11,000 bitcoin since last year. Old school whale movements like these have made some people assume that decade-old coinbase spends could stem from Satoshi Nakamoto. However, even though estimates say Nakamoto mined over a million bitcoin, many other network participants mined millions of coins as well. 2010 Saw CPU and GPU Mining, Alongside Extremely Low Hashrate and Difficulty On June 9,....
On Monday, January 25, 2021, at roughly 2 a.m. (EST), the notorious old school miner from 2010 has spent another consecutive 21 decade-old block rewards with 1,050 bitcoin. This is possibly the same mining entity our newsdesk has been tracking for months. The bitcoin from 2010 moved today follows the exact same pattern as all the block reward strings our team has caught waking up during the last ten months. For quite some time now, news.Bitcoin.com has been monitoring so-called ‘sleeping bitcoins’ that are starting to wake up after ten years. In 2020, our newsdesk has noticed....
Following the 21 coinbase rewards from 2010 spent on November 7, another long string of so-called ‘sleeping bitcoins’ mined a decade ago were transferred on Sunday morning. According to onchain data, the 20 block rewards from 2010 with 1,000 BTC were transferred at 4:02 a.m. EST. A ton of ‘zombie coins’ moved in 2020, after sitting idle for over ten years. Zombie coins or so-called ‘sleeping bitcoins’ are a great number of old addresses with block rewards that have never been spent. Estimates believe there’s around 1.5 to 2 million sleeping....