Bitcoin News
By Dan Saada
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Where These Coins Actually Came From. Whale Alert dug into the details. The 600 BTC came from 12 separate mining rewards, each tied to a…
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One Address, One Very Specific Date. Blockchain.com confirmed one specific transaction that's drawn a lot of attention.
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Still No Answers on Who Did This. The identity behind these wallets? Unknown. Completely.
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Six hundred Bitcoin moved last weekend. Just like that, after sitting completely untouched for more than 16 years, coins mined back in March 2010 suddenly shifted — and the…
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Whale Alert, the blockchain transaction tracking platform, caught the movement and put the value at roughly $48 million at the time of transfer.
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Not Satoshi. Not even close, per Whale Alert's research.
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Whale Alert shared its findings on X, the social media platform, noting that the research might help quiet speculation about Nakamoto's involvement with these specific coins.
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Lookonchain, a separate on-chain analytics service, actually got there first. Lookonchain spotted seven miner wallets that moved 350 BTC after 16.5 years of inactivity.
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That timing matters. Nakamoto's last known communication came in April 2011. So March 2010 sits squarely inside the window when Bitcoin's creator was still around, still posting,…
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Blockchain.com confirmed one specific transaction that's drawn a lot of attention. A single address received its 50 BTC mining reward on March 5, 2010.
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Whale Alert flagged something else too. One of the 12 rewards moved before the rest. The platform thinks it was probably a test transaction — the owner sending a small amount…
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The early-2010 era was a different world for Bitcoin. Mining was done by individuals, mostly hobbyists and cypherpunks, not the industrial-scale operations that dominate today.
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That's what makes any movement from that era feel significant. It's rare. It's almost always news.
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The identity behind these wallets? Unknown. Completely. Blockchain analysts are watching the addresses for any follow-up activity, but so far there's been nothing more.
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