1,000 BTC moved after lying dormant for 10 years. The Telegram channel Goldfoundinshit reported this, citing BTCparser.com
The coins were moved to the address 35DRQxCBMBe3Erbcue791t89JVB2VwsJi4, after which the sum split into 10 BTC pieces.
Based on on-chain data, Goldfoundinshit concluded that the dormant BTC that had not moved for 10 years belonged to a single owner.
Source: Goldfoundinshit.
In early October, an unknown user moved 50 BTC that had lain unmoved since 2010. A similar episode occurred in July.
In May, 50 bitcoins mined as a reward for the block on February 9, 2009 moved. The Bitcoin network had been operating for only one month at that time. One of the miners at that time was Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto.
Many users speculated that he could own the coins, but analysis of Patoshi’s patterns did not confirm the hypothesis. Read more about the possible identity of Satoshi Nakamoto at the link below.
From a drug dealer to Elon Musk: how Satoshi Nakamoto managed to maintain anonymity after ten years of searching
According to Goldfoundinshit, a similar 1000 BTC transaction mined in 2010 was carried out on March 11, just before the sharp market downturn (read more about those events at the link). In the senders’ behavior, a similar pattern is observed — first they consolidate the coins on a P2SH address, then split them into multiple bech32 addresses.
Some of the coins sent to the Free Software Foundation address.
Screenshot from the Foundation’s site showing the BTC donation address to which about 10 BTC were sent.
The organization was founded by Richard Matthew Stallman in 1985—the author of the ‘copyleft’ concept in opposition to ‘copyright’. By using copyleft licenses, authors and rights holders grant rights to distribute copies of the original work and its modified versions. Authors of derivative works are obliged to distribute it under the same rights.
Stallman is also the founder of the Free Software Movement, the GNU Project, and the League for Programming Freedom.
Earlier, the head of innovation at IOV Labs and the developer of the RSK platform, Sergio Lerner explained how the creator of Bitcoin mined a million early coins.
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