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Vintage Bitcoin Vaults Awaken — Over $41M in BTC Moves After 11.7 Years of Slumber
30.3.2024
On Friday, March 29, 2024, an early bitcoin enthusiast who acquired their holdings in 2012 transferred 100 bitcoins, valued at approximately $6.98 million, at block height 836,813. Roughly 42 blocks later, at block height 836,855, another individual, or possibly the same entity, relocated...
Bitwise Sets New Precedent as First U.S. Bitcoin ETF to Reveal BTC Addresses
24.1.2024
Bitwise is leading the way in transparency for U.S. Bitcoin ETFs, revealing the fund’s BTC addresses. Image by ki, Adobe Stock. On January 24, Bitwise Asset Management took a major step toward transparency by releasing the Bitcoin wallet addresses linked to its Bitcoin exchange-traded fund....
Bitcoin’s Largest Accounts: Peering Into the Top 10 Wallets on the ‘BTC Rich List’
2.9.2023
In recent weeks, buzz within the crypto sphere has centered on prominent bitcoin and ethereum holders. Some addresses are awash with speculation, while others have earned distinct labels. Interestingly, a handful have purportedly been unmasked, leading to many of the top ten BTC addresses being...
Onchain Sleuths Discover Funds Linked to Alameda Swapped for ETH, USDT, BTC by a Mysterious Entity
28.12.2022
On Dec. 27, 2022, a number of onchain researchers noticed that funds connected to Alameda Research and FTX have moved and have been swapped for other tokens. Reports show the hacker known as the ‘FTX Accounts Drainer,’ traded large sums of ERC20 tokens for digital assets like tether...
$1.7M in Quadrigacx Bitcoins Move, Court Trustee EY Says Transfers Were ‘Unauthorized’
21.12.2022
On Dec. 19, the Twitter account Zachxbt revealed he discovered five cold wallets from the now-defunct Quadrigacx crypto exchange move 104 bitcoin. The following day, ‘big four’ accountancy firm EY, Quadrigacx’s bankruptcy court trustee, explained it did not authorize...
Binance Publishes Its Proof-of-Reserves System for Bitcoin Holdings, Additional Assets Coming Soon
25.11.2022
On Nov. 25, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in terms of daily trade volume, Binance, published its bitcoin proof-of-reserves (POR) system using The Merkle approach. At the time of writing, the snapshot provided by Binance shows the firm’s onchain reserves equate to 582,485 bitcoin, while...
Onchain Analysis Verifies the Number of BTC Held by Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust
24.11.2022
After Grayscale Investments shared information concerning the company’s product holdings, people questioned why the firm wouldn’t share the public addresses associated with the crypto assets it holds. However, on Nov. 23, OXT researcher Ergo published a Twitter thread featuring...
Three-quarters of BTC addresses still in profit despite market decline: Glassnode
12.4.2022
The report by Glassnode also revealed that up to 60% of the transaction volume is in what it calls “profit dominance”, and long-term holders are the most likely to be in the green
Number of Addresses Holding BTC Taps 40 Million, Non-Zero Bitcoin Address Metric Grew 92% Since 2018
25.3.2022
While bitcoin has risen in value in recent times, jumping 8% during the last seven days, statistics show that the number of addresses holding bitcoin has surpassed 40 million addresses. Metrics from the analytics web portal intotheblock.com show addresses that hold any fraction of bitcoin tapped...
Non-zero BTC addresses hit all-time high of 40 million
28.2.2022
The supply-side dynamics of the Bitcoin network continue to demonstrate strong adoption as there are now more addresses with a positive BTC balance than ever before
Data Shows Bitcoin Addresses in Accumulation Captures Fresh New Highs
25.5.2021
After bitcoin prices dipped to a low of $30,066 per unit last week, lots of people have been focused on the panic sellers. Meanwhile, when bitcoin prices plunged, the number of bitcoin addresses in accumulation tapped an all-time high at 545,115 addresses. Number of Bitcoin Accumulation Addresses...
Bitcoin Whales Grow After Price Bottoms, Analyst Says ‘Coins Are Moving to Very Strong Holders’
24.1.2021
While the price of bitcoin has been consolidating just above the $30k handle, onchain data shows that when the price dropped to $28,800, bitcoin whales bought the dip. Statics from Glassnode’s web portal shows the number of addresses with more than 1,000 bitcoin has spiked after hitting...
More Ether Holders Are in Profit Than There Are BTC Addresses in Total
30.7.2020
Ethereum addresses in profit now exceed the total number of addresses with a Bitcoin balance
83% of Bitcoin Addresses Currently Profitable, Says Glassnode
24.6.2020
At least 83% of existing Bitcoin addresses are currently in a state of profit, according to Glassnode. That’s a 43% increase since bitcoin’s precipitous crash on March 12, now known as the ‘Black Thursday.’ At the time, only 45% of all the BTC addresses were profitable...
Satoshi Era Bitcoin Miner Calls Craig Wright a Fraud Using "His" BTC Addresses
25.5.2020
Craig Wright. Source: a video screenshot, Coingeek
It looks like, someone just signed a message calling Craig Wright a fraud by using 145 addresses the controversial Australian computer scientist Craig Wright claimed were his in the Tulip Trust, an anonymous Twitter user Zectro discovered. However...
Craig Wright Submits List of Bitcoin Addresses to the Court – Roster Contains Spent Blocks
22.5.2020
On May 21, 2020, the infamous Craig Wright, the man who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, submitted a list of blocks and bitcoin addresses to the court that stem from the alleged Tulip Trust. However, armchair sleuths and blockchain analysis shows that a few blocks recorded in Wright’s recently...
Sanctions Sought Over Craig Wright's 'False' BTC Addresses and Courier Story
6.5.2020
The Kleiman estate intends to file a motion for sanctions against Craig Wright claiming that a list of Bitcoin addresses he provided the court were fake
This Is How Much BTC You Need to Enter Bitcoin’s Elite 1% Club
1.3.2020
Today there are 18,244,475 BTC in circulation and during the last few weeks, a number of bitcoin influencers have been talking about how much is needed to be included in Bitcoin’s top 1% of holders. For instance, according to Blockworks Group analyst Jake Levison, if you own 0.28...