Two Bitcoin Wallets Silent Since 2010 Wake Up and Move $6.9M
A pair of Bitcoin addresses that last spent coins in September 2010 came back to life Friday, pushing 100 BTC worth about $6.9 million into new wallets. Whale Alert clocked the first 50 BTC transfer at 4:08 a.m. UTC, with the second following two minutes later. Neither has been sold yet.
- Original source: X account @Cointelegraph.
- The source published it on Nov 13, 2026 at 9:40 PM.
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Whale Alert flagged the first move at 4:08 a.m. UTC on November 13: 50 BTC, worth roughly $3.44 million, leaving an address that hadn't touched its original mining reward since September 2010. Barely two minutes later, a second wallet with the same kind of history pushed another 50 BTC. Together the coins were worth approximately $6,885,068 at the time of the transfers.
This wasn't bought coin. Both batches trace back to blocks mined on September 8 and September 19, 2010, when each 50 BTC reward was worth about three dollars because Bitcoin traded for roughly six cents. At Friday's price of around $68,800 per coin, the combined value had climbed approximately 1,147,511 times, a 114,751,033% jump. That figure tracks Bitcoin's market price, not money anyone actually pocketed. Whether this was a peer-to-peer transfer, an over-the-counter sale or just a wallet swap for security is unknown.
The $3 figure is itself an estimate. Bitcoin barely had a working market in September 2010, with historical prices showing a range of about five to seven cents. Mt. Gox had opened only that July, and its first recorded trade went through at $0.04951 per coin.
The waking wallets fit a wider 2026 pattern. Galaxy Research data highlighted in August showed decade-old Bitcoin moving at a pace rarely seen in earlier years, and in one 10-day window six wallets from 2011, 2012 and 2014 shifted a combined 553.59 BTC, worth more than $40 million at the time. Some of those moves have been tied to security worries, wallet upgrades or handoffs to professional custodians rather than selling outright.
On-chain records show where the coins went but not who holds the keys now. The first transaction split its 50 BTC into nearly 49.99 BTC and about 0.01 BTC across two new addresses, minus a small fee. The second sent roughly 49 BTC to one address and about 1 BTC to another. Each transfer cost 1,110 satoshis in network fees, around $0.75. As of an on-chain check near 14:00 UTC Friday, the 100 BTC hadn't moved again and no sale had been identified.
TopicsBitcoin · Whale Alert · Galaxy Research · Mt. Gox
Source: x.com
Written by Paparazzi with AI. Not financial advice.
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