News with the tag "Satoshi era"

Between block height 862,079 and 862,087, a group of five vintage bitcoin wallets from 2009 came out of hibernation, spending a total of 250 BTC for the first time in over 15 years. With addresses from the Satoshi era being incredibly rare, these transactions, worth $15.8 million total, marked the f...

The Bitcoin wallet belongs to a miner who earned 50 BTC as mining rewards in July 2010, a time when BTC was trading at $0.05.

An early Bitcoin miner from the Satoshi era has moved 2,000 BTC, according to Julio Moreno, head of research at CryptoQuant. These coins, mined in 2010 when Bitcoin’s value was negligible, were transferred to several new addresses almost immediately, suggesting they likely went to an over-the-counte...

According to a Chainalysis report, there are a total of 1.75 million dormant BTC addresses inactive for over a decade.