{"id":82065,"date":"2023-07-24T09:55:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T06:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=82065"},"modified":"2025-09-12T02:51:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T23:51:57","slug":"11-year-dormant-bitcoin-wallet-moves-1037-btc-worth-31-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/11-year-dormant-bitcoin-wallet-moves-1037-btc-worth-31-million\/","title":{"rendered":"11-year-dormant Bitcoin wallet moves 1,037 BTC worth $31 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An inactive wallet, idle for more than 11 years, moved all its 1,037 BTC worth about $31 million.<\/p>\n<figure class=\\\"wp-block-image size-full\\\"><img decoding=\\\"async\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-07-24-v-09.37.43.webp\\\" alt=\\\"Snimok-ekrana-2023-07-24-v-09.37.43\\\" class=\\\"wp-image-212062\\\"\/><figcaption class=\\\"wp-element-caption\\\">Data: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lookonchain\/status\/1682577125520601089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1682577125520601089%7Ctwgr%5E378ffd03cfd5e355f0dc0131fec5b0b4a0cf3bea%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcointelegraph.com%2Fnews%2Fdormant-bitcoin-btc-wallet-moves-millions-after-11-years\\\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Unknown Bitcoin whale sold the assets at a price of $29,956 per BTC.<\/p>\n<p>The investor <a href=\\\"https:\/\/bitinfocharts.com\/bitcoin\/address\/1MchKSZg4ETtfxJdhNXrDxg3hp9UAiNZ96\\\">\u043f\u043e\u043b\u0443\u0447\u0438\u043b<\/a> the first cryptocurrency on April 11, 2012 at a price of $4.92 \u2014 a profit of around 600,000%.<\/p>\n<p>At their peak in November 2021, these Bitcoins were worth around $71.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>As of writing, digital gold is trading at $29,779, down 1% for the day.<\/p>\n<figure class=\\\"wp-block-image size-large\\\"><img loading=\\\"lazy\\\" decoding=\\\"async\\\" width=\\\"1024\\\" height=\\\"441\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BTCUSDT_2023-07-24_09-41-28-1024x441.png\\\" alt=\\\"BTCUSDT_2023-07-24_09-41-28\\\" class=\\\"wp-image-212063\\\" srcset=\\\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BTCUSDT_2023-07-24_09-41-28-1024x441.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BTCUSDT_2023-07-24_09-41-28-300x129.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BTCUSDT_2023-07-24_09-41-28-768x331.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BTCUSDT_2023-07-24_09-41-28-1536x661.png 1536w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BTCUSDT_2023-07-24_09-41-28-2048x881.png 2048w\\\" sizes=\\\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\\\" \/><figcaption class=\\\"wp-element-caption\\\">15-minute chart of BTC\/USDT on Binance. Data: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/symbols\/BTCUSDT\/\\\">TradingView<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to Glassnode, the share of the first cryptocurrency that has not moved in the last two years reached a historical high <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/more-than-half-of-bitcoins-supply-has-not-moved-in-two-years\">at 53%<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in April 2022, unknowns moved 250 BTC from five wallets that had been dormant for <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-moved-from-five-wallets-dormant-for-more-than-12-years\">more than 12 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A year later <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/6071-btc-activates-after-nine-years-in-dormancy\">6,071 BTC<\/a> moved, held for nine years.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2023, an eight-year-dormant address <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/dormant-eight-year-address-moves-8000-eth\">moved 8,000 ETH<\/a> worth $14.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier an unknown sender <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/two-million-doge-that-had-lain-dormant-for-nine-years-move\">transferred 2.04 million DOGE<\/a> to another wallet, which had been held since December 31, 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 11-year-dormant Bitcoin wallet moved all its 1,037 BTC worth about $31 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82066,"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":[18,1227,1156],"class_list":["post-82065","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":"10","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82065","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=82065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82067,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82065\/revisions\/82067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}