Mystery Million-Dollar Transfer to Bitcoin Creator's Inactive Wallet
Date: 2024-01-23 Author: Dima Zakharov Categories: CRYPTO PAYMENTS
The Silent Wallet
For years, the wallet's balance remained untouched, until some cryptocurrency holders began sending coins to it as a token of gratitude or acknowledgment. By January 3, 2023, the balance of the cryptocurrency creator's address had risen to 68.56 BTC, despite Satoshi Nakamoto having a much larger stash of bitcoins on other wallets due to early mining.
A Million-Dollar Mystery
However, that's not all. Two days later, someone sent 26.9 BTC to Satoshi's address in a single transaction, roughly equivalent to 1.17 million dollars. This news raised eyebrows because the creator of Bitcoin had long gone offline and showed no intention of interacting with their own addresses again, making these funds essentially lost.
Sending Over a Million Dollars to Satoshi Nakamoto's Address
This substantial transaction has given rise to numerous theories about the sender's identity and motives. Cointelegraph journalists have gathered some intriguing speculations on this matter.
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Ordinary Oversight
The only clue at the moment is that the funds in the transaction are linked to the wallets of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, through which the transfer was conducted. Consequently, either Satoshi Nakamoto acquired some BTC on the platform and withdrew the cryptocurrency to their wallet (highly unlikely), or someone made a significant mistake during the coin transfer.
Therefore, it's possible that an unknown crypto millionaire made an error with the address, inputting the wrong one and confirming it before completing the transaction.
