Twelve-Year-Old Bitcoin Wallets From 2011 Spark a $23 Million Wake-up on Monday

On March 3, 2025, while bitcoin (BTC) traded between $92,809 to $93,206 per coin, six distinct addresses initially generated in 2011 transferred about 250 BTC—valued at roughly $23 million—for the first time in 12 years. Old-School BTC Holders Resurface, Move 350 Coins to New Addresses and Exchanges Around 250 BTC departed six legacy P2PKH (Pay-to-Pubkey-Hash) … Read more

Veiled in Dust: How Vintage Bitcoin Wallets Use Microtransfers to Test Financial Strategies

As bitcoin vaulted past $100,000, long-inactive wallets abruptly awakened, their enigmatic microtransactions igniting theories about whether elusive stakeholders are conducting trial runs or camouflaging grander financial maneuvers. Dust-Sized Bitcoin Transfers Sometimes Precede Covert Wealth Transfers Blockchain data from the past few months exposes a curious reanimation of idle coins, coinciding with bitcoin’s breach of the … Read more