On December 3, 2024, an unknown Bitcoin whale moved 2,700 BTC after 11 years of inactivity. He sent 1699 BTC to one address, 1000 BTC to another. The transaction fee was $2.47. This is reported by Whale Alert.
💤 💤 💤 💤 💤 💤 💤 💤 💤 💤 A dormant address containing 2,700 #BTC (254,427,670 USD) has just been activated after 11.0 years (worth 1,735,242 USD in 2013)!https://t.co/wjzA5uRg31
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) December 3, 2024
Judging by on-chain dataHodler received the assets on December 20, 2013. At that time, they were valued at about $1.7 million. Now the value of bitcoins is more than $254 million.
Note that from 2014 to 2020, bitcoins worth up to $1 were sent to his address. It is noteworthy that the commission for such transactions in some cases amounted to hundreds of dollars.
During the entire existence of the wallet, 32 transactions were carried out on it. At the time of writing, the Bitcoin whale holds another 0.0032 BTC, which is valued at around $315.
One of the discussion participants found “Trace of Satoshi Nakamoto” in this transaction. According to him, these bitcoins have been active since December 2009 and are also associated with wallets from 2011 that simultaneously held 9,600 BTC. He added:
Note that at the time of writing, the first cryptocurrency is trading near $95,700.
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Source: Cryptocurrency
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