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Dormant Bitcoin Wallet Linked to Mt Gox Saga Moves $60 Million for the First Time Since 2013
20.4.2023
According to onchain data, a bitcoin whale address transferred 2,071.5 bitcoin, worth approximately $60 million, after remaining dormant since December 19, 2013. Interestingly, this bitcoin address is linked to two wallets that sent 10,000 BTC last summer for the first time in nine years and...
Binance and Huobi Freeze $1.4 Million in Crypto Linked to North Korea
17.2.2023
Crypto exchanges Binance and Huobi have frozen cryptocurrencies worth approximately $1.4 million linked to North Korea, according to blockchain analytics firm Elliptic. The firm noted that the stolen funds, which were dormant until recently, originated from the June 2022 hack of Harmony’s...
Dogecoin Price Prediction as Dormant Wallet with 2 Million DOGE Becomes Active After 9 Years – Will DOGE Dump?
7.2.2023
Dogecoin (DOGE), the cryptocurrency that powers the Shiba Inu meme-inspired layer-1 Dogecoin blockchain, was last trading higher by about 1.5% this Tuesday just to the north of the $0.09 level. Dogecoin has now rallied just shy of 3% from Monday’s lows just under $0.09, with buyers seemingly having...
Long Dormant Ethereum Whale Suddenly Stakes 49K ETH – Here’s How Increased Staking Participation Can Boost ETH’s Price
25.1.2023
A long-dormant Ether whale who participated in the Ethereum Initial Coin Offering (ICO) might be about to stake a massive 32,015 ETH tokens, according to on-chain analytics-focused Twitter account @lookonchain.
The ICO participant staked 48,992 ETH back in October, ending six years of dormancy...
First Mover Asia: Altcoin Short Squeeze Brings Green Shoots to Dormant Crypto
10.1.2023
A squeeze on bearish altcoin traders has brought fresh energy into crypto markets, absent for months as the FTX exchange imploded in scandal. PLUS: Alex Thorn talks on crypto VC in 2023
Ancient Bitcoin Block Rewards See Decrease in Spending After Record Activity in 2020 and 2021
2.1.2023
In 2021, a number of 2010 block rewards were spent after the bitcoins sat idle for more than a decade. Furthermore, in 2020 and 2021, an early miner from 2010 spent strings of 20 ancient block rewards. In 2022, however, only 17 block rewards from 2010 were spent. Alongside this, on March 10, 2022...
1,200 Bitcoin Worth $20M Moved from Dormant Addresses in the Past Few Days – Here’s What Happened
5.12.2022
As many as 1,200 old bitcoins from dormant addresses have moved in the days since the collapse of FTX, with activity picking up further in the past few days.
Among the many old wallets that have moved coins in the days since FTX went down were two that spent a combined 348 BTC on November 29 –...
Addresses That Sat Idle for Years Transferred 1,221 Bitcoins Worth $20M Over the Last 4 Days
4.12.2022
During the last seven days, bitcoin’s price has remained above the $16K region following the aftermath of FTX’s collapse. Since then, a number of ‘sleeping bitcoins’ that sat idle for five to nine years have been moving during the last four days. Bitcoins that were worth...
Wake up call? Bitcoin wallets move 3,500 BTC dormant since 2011
11.11.2022
A Bitcoin whale has moved 3,500 BTC to new wallets for the first time since 2011, changing the address format from P2PKH to P2SH
Capitulation or profit-taking? Bitcoin whale moves 32K BTC dormant since 2018
20.10.2022
What is "usually" an OTC transaction signals change is afoot among 2018 bear market buyers, says Whalemap
BTC Whale Transfers $940 Million Out of Coinbase — 3 Batches of ‘Sleeping Bitcoins’ From 2011 Move
19.10.2022
On Tuesday, October 18, researchers from the crypto analysis platform Cryptoquant identified an outflow of 48,000 bitcoin coming from the trading platform Coinbase Pro. According to the researcher’s summary of the situation, a large portion of the funds were old coins. Whale Transfers 48,000...
Nifty News: Top 10 CryptoPunks wallet lays dormant, house sells on OpenSea, and more
19.10.2022
A dormant nonfungible token (NFT) wallet from 2017 with 141 CryptoPunks has been found to have minted the now ludicrously expensive NFTs for a possible $7 each
Parabolic Bitcoin Bull Run Likely After Dormant Coin Supply Peaks, Past Data Suggests
5.9.2022
Dormant supply peaks are springboards for upwards price action, one observer said
As 10,000 Long-Dormant Bitcoins Finally Trade, Observers Wonder What's Up
2.9.2022
Blockchain data shows some 5,000 BTC moving despite prices well off the all-time high. One analyst said the wallet might be related to the crypto exchange Kraken, but it’s not clear how
Dormant Wallet Linked to Alex Mashinsky Used to Cash In on CEL Token Surge
9.8.2022
The address attributed to the Celsius founder by Nansen and Arkham sold CEL tokens for the first time since Celsius froze withdrawals
Bitcoin Cold Case: The Tale of the Dormant Wallet With Close to 80,000 BTC From Mt Gox
4.4.2022
For the last 11 years, a mysterious wallet associated with the Mt Gox scandal has sat dormant holding close to 80,000 bitcoin worth $3.7 billion today. While the wallet was once the sixth-largest address a few years ago, today it’s the ninth-largest wallet in terms of bitcoin held, and...
Bitcoin 'dormant' for 7+ years moved right before BTC price dropped 5%
1.4.2022
More long-dead BTC moved this week than at any time since just before the $20,000 all-time high in December 2017
$540 Million Worth of ‘Sleeping Bitcoins’ From 2014 Move — BTC Possibly Linked to Cryptsy Theft
30.3.2022
On March 29, blockchain parsers caught a sequence of 11 transactions totaling 11,325 bitcoin moving from unknown wallets created in 2014, to a great number of recipient addresses. Furthermore, the stash of bitcoin worth $540 million today is possibly linked to the Cryptsy theft, according...
Dormant Bitcoin wallet holding 321 BTC activated after eight years
21.12.2021
For one reason or another, the wallet has not transacted for years despite having what is considered life-changing money
Hundreds of Millions Worth of ‘Sleeping Bitcoins’ Woke up After BTC’s Mid-November Price High
19.12.2021
On Sunday, December 19, a dormant address that received 235 bitcoin in 2013 was activated after more than nine years of sitting idle. Bitcoin’s price has dropped lower after reaching its all-time high on November 10, and throughout December, records show a great number of so-called...