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Míol Mór Ó 2012 Aistrithe 740 Bitcoin Is fiú $ 26M Tar éis BTC Sat Díomhaoin ar feadh 9 mbliana
On July 12, an old whale from 2012 spent 740 bitcoin worth roughly $26 million at the time of transfer after nine years of choosing not to move the coins. The whale acquired the bitcoin on May 31, 2012, when the stash of crypto was only worth $3,700.
Old School Whale Moves 740 ‘Sleeping Bitcoins '
Bitcoiners faoi deara a whale move 740 bitcoin (BTC) on Monday after the coins sat idle for over nine years. The bitcoin sat for approximately 3,330 days as the BTC was acquired on May 31, 2012. The address saw life in the spring of 2012 and the wallet has been stacking small increments of BTC since the first large deposit of 740 BTC nine years ago.
At the time of acquisition, bitcoin (BTC) a bhí ag trádáil le haghaidh $ 5 an mona so the 740 BTC was worth $3,700. Today, however, the stash was worth over $26 million when it transferred on Monday.
The whale movement was caught by whale-alert.io that stated on Twitter that a “dormant address containing 791 BTC (26,147,621 USD) has just been activated after 9.1 years.” Roughly 640 BTC went to one address while 100 BTC went into another address according to blockchair.com’s transaction statistics.
The transaction hash and details show that the transfer was sent with a low privacy score rating (45 out of 100) according to Blockchair’s Privacy-o-meter. After the transfer sent the bitcoins to two addresses, the coins were then siphoned into a tree of BTC seoltaí.
Many Idle Whales From the Early Days Have Stirred in 2021
Whale sightings are a favorite pastime for bitcoin and there’s been a lot of gluaiseachtaí móra this year. For instance, on June 9, Bitcoin.com Nuacht Thuairiscigh on the “mystery whale” from 2010, which has moved over 10,000 BTC that sat idle for over a decade.
Moreover, data shows that in the early days, a great number of people mineadh bitcoin alongside the crypto asset’s creator Satoshi Nakamoto. Last June, at block height 687,847 an old 2010 mining whale spent 100 BTC that sat idle for over ten years mined on iúil 15 agus ansin an an chéad lá eile i 2010.
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Foinse bunaidh: Bitcoin.com