Research Proves Recent Transfers of 8,000 Ten-Year-Old ‘Forgotten Bitcoins’ W...
For months now our newsdesk has followed the tracks of a mysterious whale from 2010, a miner who not only mined thousands of bitcoin back in the day, but has also spent over 8,000 bitcoin during the past ten months. This week, the Russian blockchain researcher, Issak Shvarts published a report about the decade-old block rewards, and he claims to have shown “full proof” that the bitcoins are now owned by Coinbase and also distributed after the transfers. The Case of the Mysterious 2010 Block Reward Spends For a while now our newsdesk at news.Bitcoin.com has been monitoring a....
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