{"id":49839,"date":"2021-09-21T11:33:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T08:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=49839"},"modified":"2025-09-02T14:41:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T11:41:40","slug":"unknown-mover-transfers-616-2004-btc-that-had-lain-dormant-since-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/unknown-mover-transfers-616-2004-btc-that-had-lain-dormant-since-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Unknown mover transfers 616.2004 BTC that had lain dormant since 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 19, the owner of a Bitcoin wallet moved 616.2004 BTC that had lain dormant since 2012. Over almost nine years, the value of the stored coins rose by roughly 3,200-fold.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udca4\ud83d\udca4 A dormant address containing 616 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BTC?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BTC<\/a> (29,470,042 USD) has just been activated after 8.8 years (worth 6,667 USD in 2012)!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tr6lgToZPO\">https:\/\/t.co\/tr6lgToZPO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Whale Alert (@whale_alert) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/whale_alert\/status\/1439453966358781953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 19, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>At the time the BTC arrived at the address, the leading cryptocurrency was trading at about $13.43. At that price, the value of all coins in the wallet was roughly $8,200. At the current rate, the holder has moved assets worth around $26.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blockchain.com\/btc\/address\/1BamMXZBPLMwBT3UdyAAKy3ctGDbXNKoXk?page=1\">Blockchain.com<\/a>, the wallet balance is currently 0.00059215 BTC. The transaction fee amounted to 0.00001 BTC ($0.43 at the moment).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"246\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2021-09-21-v-11.21.47-1024x246.png\" alt=\"Unknown mover transferred 616 BTC that had lain dormant since 2012\" class=\"wp-image-150065\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2021-09-21-v-11.21.47-1024x246.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2021-09-21-v-11.21.47-300x72.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2021-09-21-v-11.21.47-768x185.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2021-09-21-v-11.21.47.png 1284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blockchain.com\/btc\/tx\/13eab260d303c940243362a7bb92198687fe0a548053380b517a128bb6f1a5ab\">Blockchain.com<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In January ForkLog reported <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/study-finds-8000-bitcoins-mined-in-2010-belong-to-coinbase\">the movement of 8000 BTC<\/a>, mined in 2010. Analysts suggested the coins belonged to the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase.<\/p>\n<p>On February 28, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/another-1000-btc-idle-since-2010-have-moved\">1000 BTC<\/a> moved, \u201cdormant\u201d since 2010. Previously, Glassnode noted that beginning with <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/unknown-mover-shifted-1000-btc-that-had-lain-dormant-since-2010\">the same type of transaction<\/a> on December 28, 2020, all movements of large batches of old coins nearly perfectly tracked local price highs, after which the price tended to decline.<\/p>\n<p>In the same month, an unknown <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/unknown-mover-moved-2189-btc-that-had-lain-idle-since-2013\">transferred 2189 BTC<\/a>, consolidated at an address in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the spring it emerged <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/unknown-mover-shifts-5000-btc-that-had-lain-idle-since-2013\">the movement of 5000 BTC<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/unknown-mover-moves-500-btc-dormant-since-2013\">500 BTC<\/a>, which had lain dormant since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">VK<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 19, the owner of a Bitcoin wallet moved 616.2004 BTC that had lain dormant since 2012. Over almost nine years, the value of the stored coins rose by roughly 3,200-fold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1227],"class_list":["post-49839","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":"29","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49839","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=49839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49841,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49839\/revisions\/49841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}