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Fifteen million Bitcoins that were mined before Satoshi Nakamoto fell silent have just come back to life after being inactive for over a decade.
According to blockchain data monitoring bot BTCparser, 1,000 Satoshi-era Bitcoins created in 2010 were transferred on November 7 in 20 separate transactions worth 50 BTC each.
A closer look at the transfers reveals that the owner of the BTC in question sent the coins to a wallet address with a history of two transactions. The wallet involved subsequently emptied its treasury through a flurry of transactions, according to Blockchain.com.
The most recent transfer is the fourth early-stage batch of Bitcoin to be moved this year.
In October, $ 12 million in BTC suddenly shifted after 10 years of inactivity, sparking discussions that anonymous Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto initiated the transfer. In the same month, 50 BTC created in 2010, when mining rewards were still in their initial phase of 50 BTC per block, were moved and were believed to have been transferred to the cryptocurrency exchange Bitifinex. In May, 50 BTC mined since February 2009 suddenly came to life after being inactive for 11 years.
Crypto intelligence firms and independent researchers have tried to track the movements of any Satoshi-era BTC in an attempt to determine if Nakamoto could be behind the transactions. Analysts examining blockchain data believe Nakamoto is responsible for mining a total of one million BTC.
