{"id":18644,"date":"2024-11-16T11:02:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T09:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/dormant-bitcoin-address-awakens-moves-180-million\/"},"modified":"2024-11-16T11:02:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T09:02:05","slug":"dormant-bitcoin-address-awakens-moves-180-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/dormant-bitcoin-address-awakens-moves-180-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Dormant Bitcoin Address Awakens, Moves $180 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An address inactive for 14 years has transferred 2,000 BTC, valued at over $180 million, to a new location, as noted by analysts at Lookonchain.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A miner with 2,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BTC<\/a>($180M) woke up after being dormant for over 14 years and transferred all 2,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BTC<\/a> out today.<\/p>\n<p>This miner earned 2,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BTC<\/a> through mining in 2010 and has held it ever since!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PBny3oXw2R\">https:\/\/t.co\/PBny3oXw2R<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Kddhh3YvMY\">pic.twitter.com\/Kddhh3YvMY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lookonchain (@lookonchain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lookonchain\/status\/1857478327424135605?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to experts, the user mined these coins back in 2010 and has held onto them ever since.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2024\/11\/15\/this-og-bitcoin-investor-just-turned-120-into-178m\/\">CoinDesk<\/a>, the wallet acquired the assets when Bitcoin was trading at $0.06, turning $120 into $180 million over 14 years.<\/p>\n<p>In September, a wallet inactive for over a decade moved 35 BTC, worth $2 million, to a new address. That same month, an unknown miner from the Satoshi Nakamoto era transferred 250 BTC, valued at $16 million, after 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>In October, a Bitcoin whale moved coins mined in 2009 worth $3.58 million. In the same month, a 14-year dormant address transferred 50 BTC, valued at $3.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>In November, amid rising Bitcoin prices, users moved 325 BTC and 42.3 BTC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An address inactive for 14 years has transferred 2,000 BTC, valued at over $180 million, to a new location, as noted by analysts at Lookonchain. A miner with 2,000 $BTC($180M) woke up after being dormant for over 14 years and transferred all 2,000 $BTC out today. This miner earned 2,000 $BTC through mining in 2010 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18643,"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":[18,1227,1156],"class_list":["post-18644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-cryptocurrency-transactions","tag-institutional-investors-and-whales"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18644","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=18644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}