Bitcoin wallets dormant for 15 years suddenly move BTC

• Satoshi era bitcoin wallets dormant since 2009, have just moved 250 BTC to new wallet addresses.
• The five wallets transfered BTC in batches of 50 coins each.
• Bitcoin price traded around $63,500, having touched highs above $64,000 across major exchanges.

Several Bitcoin (BTC) miner wallets that have been dormant for over 15 years suddenly woke up and have moved 250 BTC worth over $15 million.

The so-called ‘Satoshi era’ wallets are miner addresses created in the years that Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto actively mined BTC. Such wallets date back to 2009 – five of which just transferred 50 bitcoin each to new addresses.

On-chain transactions tracker Whale Alert highlighted each of the five 50 BTC wallet movements early Sept. 20. In total, five wallets had transferred coins worth $15.9 million to new wallets.

💤 A dormant address containing 50 #BTC (3,182,908 USD) has just been activated after 15.6 years!https://t.co/rVRMOiMAfP

— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) September 20, 2024

Lookonchain shared a screenshot of Whale Alert’s posts about the dormant coins. In this case, each of the miner addresses received bitcoin as mining rewards in 2009. Not one of these wallets transacted since that first transaction.

Notably, none of the new wallets had moved the coins to a crypto exchange as of writing.

In March 2024, a Bitcoin wallet dormant for over 12 years, suddenly woke up to move 500 BTC. Another wallet dormant for over 10 years, suddenly activated in April 2023.

Bitcoin price

The movement by these ‘Satoshi era’ BTC wallets come as Bitcoin price recovered to above $64,000 amid market reaction to this week’s Federal Reserve interest rate cut. The benchmarket cryptocurrency has over the past few months struggled to break higher – with a major dip to below $50k seen on August 5, 2024.

Commenting on price outlook, crypto analyst Ali Martinez says its likely traders may want to take profits at current prices.

The TD Sequential told you to buy #Bitcoin at $57,400, and now it is telling you to book some profits at $63,700! pic.twitter.com/0h1yNowkae

— Ali (@ali_charts) September 20, 2024

BTC price tounched highs of $64,140 on Coinbase early Friday, September 20, 2024. However, it changed hands around $63,513 at the time of writing.