{"id":14962,"date":"2024-07-04T14:23:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T11:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/dormant-bitcoin-wallet-awakens-moves-119-btc-after-12-years\/"},"modified":"2024-07-04T14:23:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T11:23:08","slug":"dormant-bitcoin-wallet-awakens-moves-119-btc-after-12-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/dormant-bitcoin-wallet-awakens-moves-119-btc-after-12-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Dormant Bitcoin Wallet Awakens, Moves 119 BTC After 12 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bitcoin wallet inactive since February 2012 has transferred 119 BTC ($6.8 million) in two transactions to a new address, as noted by Whale Alert.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">? A dormant address containing 119 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BTC?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BTC<\/a> (6,992,389 USD) has just been activated after 12.4 years (worth 599 USD in 2012)!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yk2qe3UUQ0\">https:\/\/t.co\/yk2qe3UUQ0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Whale Alert (@whale_alert) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/whale_alert\/status\/1808761285808427045?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Initially, the wallet transferred <a href=\"https:\/\/mempool.space\/tx\/fa9e5b4cf7f7f78144668806f1070f92d5bdf487ce330f0d9a5ce13989dc8c99\">76 BTC ($4.4 million)<\/a>. A related transaction involving <a href=\"https:\/\/mempool.space\/tx\/f0821f6d6e25a666626ada77842984a9880fd2dddb6d60f24bdc8607f2176045\">43 BTC ($2.5 million)<\/a> remained unconfirmed at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p>The last transaction by the owner was on February 28, 2012, when 2.98 BTC ($15 at the time) were sent, and the 199 BTC balance was valued at $600.<\/p>\n<p>With the current Bitcoin price at $57,900, the coins have appreciated 11,487 times over this period.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, on July 2, dormant 33.99 BTC, inactive since June 2011, were moved. An unknown owner distributed assets worth over $2.1 million between two addresses.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, a miner transferred 50 BTC, earned from a block mined on July 14, 2010, to Binance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bitcoin wallet inactive since February 2012 has transferred 119 BTC ($6.8 million) in two transactions to a new address, as noted by Whale Alert. ? A dormant address containing 119 #BTC (6,992,389 USD) has just been activated after 12.4 years (worth 599 USD in 2012)!https:\/\/t.co\/yk2qe3UUQ0 \u2014 Whale Alert (@whale_alert) July 4, 2024 Initially, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1227],"class_list":["post-14962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-cryptocurrency-transactions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"10","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}