{"id":25560,"date":"2025-07-24T16:55:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T13:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/dormant-bitcoin-whale-awakens-after-14-years-moves-468-million\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T16:55:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T13:55:01","slug":"dormant-bitcoin-whale-awakens-after-14-years-moves-468-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/dormant-bitcoin-whale-awakens-after-14-years-moves-468-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Dormant Bitcoin Whale Awakens After 14 Years, Moves $468 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 24, a wallet associated with an &#8220;early&#8221; Bitcoin whale transferred 3,962 BTC (approximately $468 million at the current rate) to a new address. Analysts at Whale Alert noted this activity.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udca4 \ud83d\udca4 \ud83d\udca4 \ud83d\udca4 \ud83d\udca4 \ud83d\udca4 \ud83d\udca4 \ud83d\udca4 \ud83d\udca4 \ud83d\udca4 A dormant address containing 3,962 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BTC?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BTC<\/a> (468,046,931 USD) has just been activated after 14.5 years!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LXdjguOqYv\">https:\/\/t.co\/LXdjguOqYv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Whale Alert (@whale_alert) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/whale_alert\/status\/1948333226390401385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The owner of the first cryptocurrency showed activity for the first time in 14 years. He acquired the transferred bitcoins at $0.393 per coin in January 2011, when their total value was estimated at $1,453.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Update: This whale has transferred all 3,962 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BTC<\/a>($468M) to a new wallet bc1qcz after being dormant for 14.5 years.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GOp1mQk1Ih\">https:\/\/t.co\/GOp1mQk1Ih<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2vZYhjVCcp\">https:\/\/t.co\/2vZYhjVCcp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dv0N34Cj1g\">pic.twitter.com\/Dv0N34Cj1g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lookonchain (@lookonchain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lookonchain\/status\/1948350896452104660?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Users <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/vidoteth\/status\/1948355196825801036\">speculated<\/a> that the whale transferred the funds to a more secure wallet. Others suggested a connection to Satoshi Nakamoto. However, the true identity of the address owner remains unknown.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Holy fuck he is Satoshi \ud83e\udd2f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/69zWRUIJgi\">pic.twitter.com\/69zWRUIJgi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bsv (@CaptainBSV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaptainBSV\/status\/1948349398687080934?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Whale Alert analysts also observed two significant Ethereum transactions. One wallet <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/whale_alert\/status\/1948374903268204822\">transferred<\/a> 31,168 ETH (approximately $113 million) to Coinbase Institutional, while another <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/whale_alert\/status\/1948374317986656646\">sent<\/a> 27,090 ETH (approximately $98 million) to Cumberland.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in July, on the 17th, a whale dormant since 2011 <span class='old_tooltip' data-descr='Activated after a period of inactivity'>&#8220;awoke&#8221;<\/span>. It moved 80,000 BTC to eight new wallets. Analysts speculated that the investor was preparing to sell the funds through the over-the-counter service Galaxy Digital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 24, a wallet associated with an &#8220;early&#8221; Bitcoin whale transferred 3,962 BTC (approximately $468 million at the current rate) to a new address. Analysts at Whale Alert noted this activity. \ud83d\udca4 \ud83d\udca4 \ud83d\udca4 \ud83d\udca4 \ud83d\udca4 \ud83d\udca4 \ud83d\udca4 \ud83d\udca4 \ud83d\udca4 \ud83d\udca4 A dormant address containing 3,962 #BTC (468,046,931 USD) has just been activated after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25559,"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":[18,1227,46,1156],"class_list":["post-25560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-cryptocurrency-transactions","tag-ethereum","tag-institutional-investors-and-whales"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"84","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}