With BTC Firmly Above $100K, Forgotten Sleeping Bitcoin Wallets Spring to Life

With bitcoin dancing well above the $100,000 mark since Dec. 11, occasionally dipping its toes below, a slew of long-sleeping bitcoin wallets have been springing back to life. Bitcoin’s $100K Plateau Brings Forgotten Fortunes Back Into Circulation Over the past four days, bitcoin (BTC), the crypto king by market cap, has been cruising well over … Read more

Dormant Bitcoin Wallet Transfers 114 BTC Worth $7.6M After 11 Years

With bitcoin’s price up 6.8% from last week, a dormant bitcoin address from 2013 became active for the first time in over 11 years, transferring 114.42 bitcoins valued at $7.67 million. Sleeping Bitcoin Wallet Awakens After 11 Years, Moves 114 Bitcoins April and May have seen fewer awakenings of long-dormant bitcoin addresses, but some noteworthy … Read more

32 Vintage ‘Sleeping Bitcoin’ Wallets Spring to Life in May, Surpassing April’s Activity

Following the awakening of numerous dormant bitcoins in March, April was rather uneventful, with just 72 transfers from idle wallets dating between 2010 and 2017. To date, May has seen 32 transfers from vintage wallets, moving about 1,181 more bitcoin in the past two weeks than during the whole month of April. May Outpaces April … Read more

Bitcoin Whale From 2013 Resurfaces, Moves Over 1,000 BTC Worth $61 Million 

On May 12, as bitcoin hovered slightly above the $61,000 mark, two dormant bitcoin wallets, inactive for over ten years and eight months, executed transactions totaling 1,000 bitcoins valued at approximately $61.1 million. It appears that both wallets, created on the same day, were owned by the same individual. Dormant for a Decade: Bitcoin Wallets … Read more

2014 Bitcoin Whale Awakens, Spends 1,005 BTC Valued at $64 Million After a Decade

Contrary to several earlier reports, it has been revealed that not only were 687.33 bitcoins transferred from a dormant 2014 wallet on May 6, 2024, but the owner also appears to have expended a total of 1,005.33 BTC, equivalent to almost $64 million at current exchange rates. 1,005 Bitcoin Worth $64 Million Moved From 2 … Read more