{"id":25162,"date":"2025-07-08T11:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T08:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/dormant-ethereum-addresses-move-1140-eth-after-nearly-a-decade\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T11:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T08:27:08","slug":"dormant-ethereum-addresses-move-1140-eth-after-nearly-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/dormant-ethereum-addresses-move-1140-eth-after-nearly-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Dormant Ethereum Addresses Move 1140 ETH After Nearly a Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 7, two Ethereum addresses became active for the first time in nearly a decade, transferring a total of 1140 ETH valued at approximately $2.9 million. This activity was noted by Whale Alert.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">? A dormant pre-mine address containing 900 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ETH?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ETH<\/a> (2,274,221 USD) has just been activated after 9.9 years (worth 279 USD in 2015)!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SxQbL8Sp1Z\">https:\/\/t.co\/SxQbL8Sp1Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Whale Alert (@whale_alert) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/whale_alert\/status\/1942288434485182578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The wallets received <a href=\"https:\/\/etherscan.io\/address\/0x7f1619988f3715e94ff1d253262dc5581db3de1c\">900 ETH<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/etherscan.io\/address\/0x27830c5f6023afaaf79745676c204a0faccda0ba\">240 ETH<\/a> respectively through genesis transactions on the network&#8217;s launch day, July 30, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>At that time, the coin was priced at approximately $0.31. Currently, the cryptocurrency trades around $2550, marking a 90,000% increase over the period.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ethereum-Price-ETH-Live-Price-Chart-Market-Cap-News-Today-CoinGecko-Google-Chrome-1024x460.jpg\" alt=\"Ethereum-Price-ETH-Live-Price-Chart-Market-Cap-News-Today-CoinGecko-Google-Chrome\" class=\"wp-image-261527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ethereum-Price-ETH-Live-Price-Chart-Market-Cap-News-Today-CoinGecko-Google-Chrome-1024x460.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ethereum-Price-ETH-Live-Price-Chart-Market-Cap-News-Today-CoinGecko-Google-Chrome-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ethereum-Price-ETH-Live-Price-Chart-Market-Cap-News-Today-CoinGecko-Google-Chrome-768x345.jpg 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ethereum-Price-ETH-Live-Price-Chart-Market-Cap-News-Today-CoinGecko-Google-Chrome.jpg 1274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/ethereum\">CoinGecko<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ethereum&#8217;s all-time high was recorded in November 2021 at $4878.<\/p>\n<p>In April, analysts at CryptoQuant noted <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/cryptoquant-observes-awakening-of-dormant-bitcoins\">the activation of dormant bitcoins<\/a>. In the first three months of the year, approximately 62,800 BTC, which had been inactive for over seven years, were moved.<\/p>\n<p>In July, an unknown party transferred 80,000 BTC worth $8.6 billion from eight wallets that had been inactive for 14 years. The transactions <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/8-6-billion-bitcoin-transfer-sparks-debate-over-owners-identity\">sparked community discussions<\/a> about the possible identity of the owner, the purpose of the operations, and even <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/expert-suggests-possible-breach-of-bitcoin-wallets-holding-8-6-billion\">potential hacking<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Back in December 2024, an address that participated in the Ethereum ICO <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ethereum-ico-participant-moves-over-630-eth-after-nine-years\">executed<\/a> its first outgoing transaction in nine years, moving 631 ETH valued at $2.1 million at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 7, two Ethereum addresses became active for the first time in nearly a decade, transferring a total of 1140 ETH valued at approximately $2.9 million. This activity was noted by Whale Alert. ? A dormant pre-mine address containing 900 #ETH (2,274,221 USD) has just been activated after 9.9 years (worth 279 USD in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25161,"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":[1227,46],"class_list":["post-25162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-transactions","tag-ethereum"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"74","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25162","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=25162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}