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Mr.Arshman

08/20 15:43

11-Year-Old Dormant Bitcoin Wallets Move 1,214 BTC

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August is already shaping up as a record-setting month for dormant bitcoin spends. It opened with the Coldcard incident, where nearly 2,000 $BTC were stolen from hardware wallets running faulty firmware. The latest wave of sleeping bitcoin, however, is not associated with the stolen funds but likely instead reflects old-school holders quietly moving coins to safer destinations. The blockchain exposes every movement, but never reveals the motive behind it.As bitcoin prices climbed over the last 24 hours, btcparser.com data shows 28 long-dormant wallets suddenly stirred between Aug. 19 and 20 after years of silence. The wallets shifted a total of 1,314.41 $BTC worth $94.03 million to fresh addresses, with a staggering 92.4% of the bitcoin coming from addresses first created in 2014. Even more striking, 21 of the 28 spends moved in neat 50 $BTC chunks from 2014 wallets created in November or December of that year. The owner moved the coins out of legacy P2PKH (Pay-to-Public-Key-Hash) wallets and consolidated them into newer P2WPKH (Pay-to-Witness-Public-Key-Hash) addresses. Several transfers landed in the same blocks, including block height 963203, suggesting the movements were coordinated rather than random. The destination addresses carry no flags from explorers such as Arkham Intelligence and, at least for now, show no obvious signs of heading toward an exchange. Blockchair.com’s privacy tool rated several of the 21 consolidated 50 $BTC transfers “low,” scoring them just 22 out of 100 across roughly four privacy issues, including repeated appearances of the same address among the inputs. But this likely single 2014 whale was hardly alone, as other wallets from the 2014 cohort also suddenly woke up after more than a decade in the shadows.
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