Another ‘Satoshi era’ wallet from 2009 has awakened and moved Bitcoin

The Satoshi-era Bitcoin whale was last active in June 2011, but initially mined its coins between April and June 2009, soon after the network went live.

A “Satoshi-era” Bitcoin wallet with $442 million worth of Bitcoin (BTC) has become the latest sleeping Bitcoin giant to wake, shifting some of its funds for the first time in 14 years.

The unknown owner of the wallet made most of its stash mining 4,000 Bitcoin between April and June 2009, only a few months after the first blockchain network went live, Whale Alert said in an X post on Thursday. 

Data from the onchain analytics platform Nansen shows the whale sent 150 Bitcoin, worth over $16 million, in a single transaction on Thursday. 

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