{"id":9784,"date":"2024-01-15T09:49:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T07:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/dormant-ethereum-ico-address-awakens-after-eight-years\/"},"modified":"2024-01-15T09:49:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T07:49:06","slug":"dormant-ethereum-ico-address-awakens-after-eight-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/dormant-ethereum-ico-address-awakens-after-eight-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Dormant Ethereum ICO Address Awakens After Eight Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 14, an unknown Ethereum holder sent 0.01 ETH from an <a href=\"https:\/\/etherscan.io\/address\/0xac4460a76e6db2b9fcd152d9c7718d9ac6ed8c6f\">address<\/a> that had been inactive since the coin&#8217;s ICO\u2014over eight years ago. This was reported by Whale Alert.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">? A dormant pre-mine address containing 200 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ETH?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ETH<\/a> (506,140 USD) has just been activated after 8.5 years!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NtW3dDb2So\">https:\/\/t.co\/NtW3dDb2So<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Whale Alert (@whale_alert) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/whale_alert\/status\/1746598091749208325?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In total, the sender&#8217;s wallet contained 200 ETH (over $500,000 at the time of the transaction). These were credited in July 2015, when the price of 1 ETH was approximately $0.31.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, Ethereum is trading at $2515, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/ethereum\">CoinGecko<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In July 2023, another ICO participant moved 641 ETH (about $1.2 million at that time) for the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 14, an unknown Ethereum holder sent 0.01 ETH from an address that had been inactive since the coin&#8217;s ICO\u2014over eight years ago. This was reported by Whale Alert. ? A dormant pre-mine address containing 200 #ETH (506,140 USD) has just been activated after 8.5 years!https:\/\/t.co\/NtW3dDb2So \u2014 Whale Alert (@whale_alert) January 14, 2024 In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9783,"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":[1227,46,319],"class_list":["post-9784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-transactions","tag-ethereum","tag-ico"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9784","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=9784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}