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Story: 600 Bitcoin from 2010 Moves After 16 Years, Sparks Speculation on Ownership

By Maheen Hernandez

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A Test Transaction, Then the Full Move. One detail stands out. Whale Alert's report flagged what looks like a test transaction — a small…

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What the Crypto Community Is Watching Now. Early Bitcoin wallets going quiet for years and then suddenly waking up isn't new — it happens a…

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Six hundred Bitcoin moved on Saturday. Just like that. After sitting completely untouched for 16 years, wallets tied to mining activity from March 2010 suddenly came to life,…

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Blockchain tracking platform Whale Alert caught the transfers first and traced them back to 12 separate Bitcoin blocks, each carrying the original 50 BTC mining reward from early…

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The first question everyone asked was obvious: is this Nakamoto? Whale Alert addressed it directly.

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But Whale Alert's analysis was pretty clear. No direct link. The blocks don't match the patterns associated with Nakamoto's known mining activity, and the platform seems…

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Lookonchain, a separate blockchain analytics outfit, actually got there first. Their team spotted seven miner wallets collectively moving 350 BTC after more than 16 years of zero…

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One detail stands out. Whale Alert's report flagged what looks like a test transaction — a small precursor transfer that happened before the bulk of the coins moved.

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That caution probably matters. Moving 600 BTC after 16 years isn't an accident. Whoever did it knew exactly what they had, knew the coins were worth roughly $48 million at…

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Early Bitcoin wallets going quiet for years and then suddenly waking up isn't new — it happens a few times a year and it always generates the same cycle of Satoshi speculation,…

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The broader question the community keeps circling back to: are there more? Hundreds of thousands of Bitcoin from the 2009-2011 era are still sitting in wallets that haven't moved…

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No further disclosures have come from whoever controls these coins. No exchange has publicly flagged a large deposit matching the amounts. No wallet label has surfaced.

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Whale Alert and Lookonchain are still watching the destination addresses.

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