{"id":9637,"date":"2024-01-07T11:52:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T09:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/anonymous-user-transfers-26-9-btc-to-satoshi-nakamotos-wallet\/"},"modified":"2024-01-07T11:52:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T09:52:48","slug":"anonymous-user-transfers-26-9-btc-to-satoshi-nakamotos-wallet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/anonymous-user-transfers-26-9-btc-to-satoshi-nakamotos-wallet\/","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous User Transfers 26.9 BTC to Satoshi Nakamoto&#8217;s Wallet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 5, an anonymous user <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blockchain.com\/explorer\/transactions\/btc\/d7db4f96a4059c8906b953677ce533493d7b9da0f854a21b99f5772910dd0a31\">transferred<\/a> 26.91 BTC (nearly $1.2 million at the time of writing) to the wallet of Bitcoin&#8217;s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto.<\/p>\n<p>The sender&#8217;s address was funded from three sources, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/post\/270748\/someone-sent-1-2-million-of-bitcoin-to-the-genesis-wallet-mined-by-satoshi-nakamoto\" title=\"\">The Block<\/a>. Most of the funds came from a wallet identified by Arkham Intelligence as belonging to Binance.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, the genesis wallet holds 99.67 BTC, valued at approximately $4.4 million. The assets have remained unmoved since Bitcoin&#8217;s creator disappeared in December 2010.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1in4TEwh66\">https:\/\/t.co\/1in4TEwh66<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe some sort of weird ETF marketing scheme? ?\u200d\u2642\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Conor (@jconorgrogan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jconorgrogan\/status\/1743445389695410477?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\n<cite>&#8220;Either Satoshi woke up, bought 27 BTC on Binance, and transferred them to his wallet, or someone just burned a million dollars,&#8221; wrote Coinbase director Conor Grogan.<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He also speculated that it might be &#8220;strange marketing&#8221; related to the potential approval of a spot Bitcoin ETF.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2023, Casa co-founder Jameson Lopp argued against the theory that Bitcoin pioneer Hal Finney was the creator of the first cryptocurrency, Satoshi Nakamoto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 5, an anonymous user transferred 26.91 BTC (nearly $1.2 million at the time of writing) to the wallet of Bitcoin&#8217;s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. The sender&#8217;s address was funded from three sources, reports The Block. Most of the funds came from a wallet identified by Arkham Intelligence as belonging to Binance. At the time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9636,"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":[111],"class_list":["post-9637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-satoshi-nakamoto"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"38","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9637","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=9637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}