{"id":25724,"date":"2025-07-31T15:47:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/dormant-bitcoin-wallets-move-250-btc-after-15-years\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T15:47:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:47:39","slug":"dormant-bitcoin-wallets-move-250-btc-after-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/dormant-bitcoin-wallets-move-250-btc-after-15-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Dormant Bitcoin Wallets Move 250 BTC After 15 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Funds from five Bitcoin addresses, inactive for over 15 years, have been mobilized. The wallet owners transferred 250 BTC, valued at approximately $29.6 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">5 miner wallets woke up after being dormant for over 15 years and transferred 250 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BTC<\/a>($29.6M) out an hour ago.<\/p>\n<p>These miner wallets earned 50 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BTC<\/a> each from mining on Apr 26, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Wallets:<br \/>1NuqAKeX6JzW372QfEe7eFkewFx21fnqd3<br \/>12EWRT19v2eAvWjGDWjodCe7NP1CzmFphT\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vGttaE6MxY\">pic.twitter.com\/vGttaE6MxY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lookonchain (@lookonchain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lookonchain\/status\/1950829398598533341?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to Lookonchain, each address received 50 BTC as a block reward in April 2010, during the earliest days of mining.<\/p>\n<p>All funds have been consolidated into two new SegWit format addresses.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of receiving the coins in 2010, their total value was about 75 cents, based on a price of $0.003 per BTC. The energy costs for mining with processors of that era were minimal.<\/p>\n<p>On July 17, an inactive whale since 2011 <span class='old_tooltip' data-descr='\"\u043f\u0440\u043e\u0441\u043d\u0443\u043b\u0441\u044f\"'>&#8220;woke up&#8221;<\/span> and moved 80,000 BTC to eight new wallets.<\/p>\n<p>On July 24, an address associated with an &#8220;early&#8221; user <span class='old_tooltip' data-descr='\u043f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0432\u0435\u043b'>transferred<\/span> 3,962 BTC to a new wallet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funds from five Bitcoin addresses, inactive for over 15 years, have been mobilized. The wallet owners transferred 250 BTC, valued at approximately $29.6 million. 5 miner wallets woke up after being dormant for over 15 years and transferred 250 $BTC($29.6M) out an hour ago. These miner wallets earned 50 $BTC each from mining on Apr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25723,"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":[1227,1156],"class_list":["post-25724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-transactions","tag-institutional-investors-and-whales"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"130","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25724","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=25724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}