{"id":77787,"date":"2026-09-06T09:03:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T09:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/satoshi-era-bitcoin-whale-awakens-moves-48m-in-vintage-btc\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T09:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T09:03:43","slug":"satoshi-era-bitcoin-whale-awakens-moves-48m-in-vintage-btc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/satoshi-era-bitcoin-whale-awakens-moves-48m-in-vintage-btc\/","title":{"rendered":"Satoshi-Era Bitcoin Whale Awakens, Moves $48M in Vintage BTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News )<\/b><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"@container mb-[25px] rounded-sm overflow-clip py-0.5 pr-0.5 pl-2.5 bg-success-100\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col gap-m overflow-clip rounded-[6px] !bg-success-10 p-3 @[420px]:p-m\">\n<h2 class=\"m-0 flex items-center gap-s text-[19px] !text-[#1c1c1c] md:text-[20px]\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"16\" height=\"10\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 10\" fill=\"none\" class=\"shrink-0 text-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M1 1.5h14\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\"\/><path d=\"M1 8.5h10\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\"\/><\/svg><span>Key Takeaways<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"m-0 flex list-none flex-col gap-m pl-0\">\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">Bitcoin saw 600 BTC from 2010 swept into 12 new wallets on Sept. 5, putting $47.84 million in rare Satoshi-era coins back in play.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">Arkham tagged the 12 original wallets as a miner, tying the stash to Bitcoin\u2019s early CPU-mining days.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">The 600 BTC sweep clocked a 60\/100 privacy score, while where the coins head next is anyone\u2019s guess.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>2010 Bitcoin Miner Suddenly Moves 600 BTC<\/h2>\n<p>Earlier on Saturday, Bitcoin.com News reported that September had logged <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/crypto-news\/dormant-bitcoin-wallets-continue-to-stir-as-50m-moves-in-september\/\">626.74 BTC so far<\/a>. That figure didn\u2019t stick around for long, though, as things took a significant turn at block height 965639. At that time, 12 legacy Pay-to-Public-Key (P2PK) addresses moved a total of 600 BTC from wallets created long ago in 2010. The movement of the long-dormant bitcoin didn\u2019t go unnoticed, <a href=\"https:\/\/btcparser.com\/1\/?d=202609\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">with both btcparser.com<\/a> and Whale Alert picking up on the transfers on their feeds.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the thing: 2010-era bitcoin spends are pretty rare when it comes to dormant coins suddenly moving. Seeing a whole string of them like this, on the other hand, is even more unusual. Out of the massive <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/featured\/bitcoin-early-adopters-stir-as-6427-btc-worth-500m-moves-in-august\/\">6,427.59 vintage BTC shifted last month<\/a>, only two of them were from wallets created in 2010. This specific batch was a miner as the transfers were all coinbase transactions mined between March 2, 3, 4, and 5.<\/p>\n<h2>Genuine Satoshi-Era: Mined Before Bitcoin Even Had a Market Price<\/h2>\n<p>The timeline is everything, as the 600 BTC was mined when the network\u2019s difficulty was near 1, and people were mining with central processing units (CPUs), in contrast to today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/from-terahash-to-petahash-inside-2025s-most-powerful-bitcoin-mining-rigs\/\">powerful ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit)<\/a> mining machines. The person was mining before bitcoin even had a market price and even before the first BTC transaction that occurred on May 22, 2010. Bitcoin started seeing a market value that summer between $0.0008 to $0.08 per coin.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_845271\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-845271\" style=\"width:1918px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-845271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 12 Satoshi-era spends sent on Sept. 5, 2026. Image source: Btcparser.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p> <!-- --> <\/p>\n<p>These aren\u2019t just ordinary 2010 BTC, they\u2019re genuine Satoshi-era bitcoins. The first movement that occurred on Sept. 5 saw the bitcoin moved to an unflagged P2WPKH (Pay-to-Witness-Public-Key-Hash) wallet. This process took place across all 12 transfers to new P2WPKH addresses. Arkham Intelligence flags the original P2PK wallets as a \u201cminer,\u201d but the P2WPKH wallets from Sept. 5 are unknown.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_845267\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-845267\" style=\"width:2356px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-845267 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/screenshot-2026-09-05-at-8-58-28-pm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2356\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/screenshot-2026-09-05-at-8-58-28-pm-300x147.png 300w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/screenshot-2026-09-05-at-8-58-28-pm-1024x501.png 1024w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/screenshot-2026-09-05-at-8-58-28-pm-768x376.png 768w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/screenshot-2026-09-05-at-8-58-28-pm-1536x751.png 1536w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/screenshot-2026-09-05-at-8-58-28-pm-2048x1001.png 2048w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/screenshot-2026-09-05-at-8-58-28-pm.png 2356w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2356px) 100vw, 2356px\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-845267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A coinbase reward is the new bitcoin a miner gets for successfully mining a block, and while the names are the same, it has nothing to do with the crypto exchange called Coinbase. An original P2PK (Pay-to-Public-Key) address, as shown above in the mempool.space screenshot of one of today\u2019s transfers is one of Bitcoin\u2019s earliest ways of receiving coins, where bitcoin was sent directly to a person\u2019s public key instead of the more familiar address formats used today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After the second 50 BTC transfer at block height 965645, the next block included the following ten transfers or 500 BTC, all moved at block 965646. Blockchair\u2019s privacy meter gives some of the transfers <a href=\"https:\/\/blockchair.com\/bitcoin\/privacy-o-meter\/6294084fa19833fd6b6992f35ad4acce386f471ca4e2d42dcf45596d68e23f09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a decent score of 60 out of 100<\/a>, or \u201cmoderate\u201d in terms of privacy. The transfers were most definitely a sweep as the sender leveraged the \u201csend everything\u201d option to move the BTC to the newer P2WPKH wallet type.<\/p>\n<p>A 2010 whale like this has not been seen since the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/2010-bitcoin-mega-whale-wakes-up-moves-181m-in-dormant-btc-after-yearlong-silence\/\">last mega bitcoin whale appearance<\/a> back in January of this year. Like the mega whale, this particular miner moved a solid batch of ten coinbase rewards in one block. Unlike the bigger 2010 behemoth, this person\u2019s rewards weren\u2019t spread across mixed dates, but came from consecutive days during the first week of March.<\/p>\n<p>Still, whoever moved the 600 BTC was clearly one of Bitcoin\u2019s earliest miners, making this stash special in its own right.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/featured\/satoshi-era-bitcoin-whale-awakens-moves-48m-in-vintage-btc\/\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News ) Key Takeaways Bitcoin saw 600 BTC from 2010 swept into 12 new wallets on Sept. 5, putting $47.84 million in rare Satoshi-era coins back in play. Arkham tagged the 12 original wallets as a miner, tying the stash to Bitcoin\u2019s early CPU-mining days. 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