Dormant Bitcoin Waking Up: Over 600K BTC Moved Onchain In Weeks
Bitcoin is trading at a critical level after several days of tight consolidation between $115,000 and $110,000. The price action reflects a tense standoff, with bulls working to regain ground while mounting selling pressure keeps gains in check. Despite the cautious mood, momentum appears to be leaning bullish, as buyers continue to defend key support zones and prepare for the next decisive move. Related Reading: Ethereum Network Activity Heats Up As Fees Hit $1.4M In 24H Adding weight to this outlook, top analyst Maartunn shared new insights showing that dormant Bitcoin coins are....
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BTC price action in 2022 is being accompanied by seriously old coins leaving hibernation after 10 years or more. Bitcoin (BTC) is seeing some of its oldest coins come back to life after a decade lying dormant.The latest on-chain data reveals that two-year BTC price lows have reawakened the most ancient part of the supply."Very old" Bitcoin come back to lifeAs BTC/USD returns to levels not seen since Q4 2020, questions are arising over how long-term holders will respond.The on-chain picture is mixed — the dormant supply is aging, but certain old hands are showing signs of wanting to sell at....
Bitcoin is back in the spotlight after reports confirmed that coins untouched since 2012 have been moved for the first time. Related Reading: Institutional Adoption Rises: 21X Brings Chainlink Into Europe’s Tokenized Securities Market The reactivation of an old wallet came at a moment when the market is already buzzing with strong ETF inflows and record levels of stablecoin liquidity. Wallet Reactivates After 13 Years According to Onchain Lens, the address that first received coins on November 26, 2012, moved 132.03 BTC in a single transaction. The transfer was worth about $15 million at....
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....
Another 2010 block reward was spent on Wednesday morning (ET) adding to the great number of ‘Satoshi era’ or so-called ‘sleeping bitcoins’ waking up in 2020. The block reward with 50 bitcoins was created on November 11, 2010, and transferred in block 652,669 after ten years. During the last few weeks, news.Bitcoin.com has been leveraging multiple tools to crawl the BTC blockchain, in order to research a great number of old coins that have moved this year. The term ‘Satoshi era’ refers to the period when Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s inventor, was....
12 years ago, Bitcoin’s inventor Satoshi Nakamoto launched the network after revealing the cryptocurrency concept via the white paper a few months prior. At approximately 18:15:05 UTC, the network launched its first block and since then, over 664,000 bitcoin blocks have been mined. Moreover, on the 12th anniversary of the network coming to life, a large string of 2010 block rewards started moving after more than ten years of sitting idle. The 12th Anniversary of the Bitcoin Blockchain Cryptocurrency proponents are celebrating the invocation of the first computational network to solve....