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Sleeping Bitcoin Wallet Awakens: $3.7M Worth of BTC Suddenly Moves After Close to 12 Years of Dormancy

May 14, 2023 · 1 min read · 568 points
Sleeping Bitcoin Wallet Awakens: $3.7M Worth of BTC Suddenly Moves After Close to 12 Years of Dormancy
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On May 11, 2023, a long-inactive bitcoin wallet sprang to life and transferred a substantial 139.7 bitcoin worth $3.7 million.

Highlights

  • A dormant wallet created on June 19, 2011, suddenly relocated 139.7 BTC, equivalent to $3.7 million at the time of transfer, on May 11, 2023.
  • The wallet still holds the funds and the corresponding bitcoin cash (BCH) associated with the wallet has not been spent.
  • The address responsible for the transfer received a moderate privacy score of 45 out of 100 according to Blockchair’s privacy-o-meter tool.
  • It faces two issues: its entire balance was communicated to another address and multiple iterations of the same address appeared in inputs.
  • These issues are not severe but they can be traced by monitoring applications examining linked transactions.

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