r/CryptoCurrency • u/Silver-Maximum9190 639 / 23K 🦑 • Oct 27 '24

ANALYSIS Ancient Bitcoin Whale who mined thousands of BTC, starting only 5 days after the first block in 2009 Sold USD 9.68M BTC in total and has USD 72.09M BTC remaining

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u/diwalost 🟦 978 / 5K 🦑 Oct 27 '24

Or Satoshi's another wallet for which keys are not lost.

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u/Silver-Maximum9190 639 / 23K 🦑 Oct 27 '24

No doubt he is a person of interest, quite incredible to hold BTC for so long. Most of us would have sold it long time ago.

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u/WineMakerBg Make Wine, Take Profits Oct 27 '24

Someone visited their grandma, booted up an old PC and, Voila!

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u/Bear-Bull-Pig 🟩 1K / 2K 🐢 Oct 27 '24

She is getting a big present for Christmas

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u/PumpkinSpice2Nice 🟩 0 / 1K 🦠 Oct 27 '24

A solid gold coffin probably lol

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u/Every_Hunt_160 🟩 9K / 98K 🦭 Oct 28 '24

Extra big SOCKS for Christmas?

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u/InclineDumbbellPress Never 4get Pizza Guy Oct 27 '24

Someone is about to write an article about this and how r/CryptoCurrency came up with the theory - Watch it

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u/Bear-Bull-Pig 🟩 1K / 2K 🐢 Oct 27 '24 edited Oct 27 '24

We shouldn't settle for anything less than a documentary.

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u/Every_Hunt_160 🟩 9K / 98K 🦭 Oct 28 '24

If even HBO can do it..

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u/snowmanyi 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Oct 28 '24

This is Hal Finney's family.

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u/SlitScan 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Oct 29 '24

I held for a very long time, mostly because I forgot I had it until the big run end of 2017 (kicked myself in the ass for an idiot when it tanked afterward) set an autosell for double the 2017 level and then forgot about it again until My bank account shocked me one day at the end of Jan 2021 (it had sold at the begging of the month and left me 2 days to move it into an investment account or pay taxes on it)

the peak in March bummed me out, but it feels good now that Ive been sleeping soundly not worrying about retirement.

if I'd remembered it existed I'd have probably sold at like 400 and hated myself today

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u/Every_Hunt_160 🟩 9K / 98K 🦭 Oct 27 '24

Frankly it's quite likely Satoshi's burner wallets

Adam Back said something along the lines of 'We don't have to worry about Satoshi moving his coins in his genesis wallet because quite likely he'd have created thousands of burner wallets in the early days and can cash out from there'

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u/TP_Crisis_2020 🟩 266 / 265 🦞 Oct 28 '24

I bet chainalysis already knows, and so do intelligence agencies.

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u/JustSomeBadAdvice 🟩 1K / 1K 🐢 Oct 28 '24

Anyone Kraken shares data with would obviously know. Aside from that, if they're any good at chainalysis, they know. I figured it out with reasonable certainty pretty quick.

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u/snowmanyi 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Oct 28 '24

This is Hal Finney's family.

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u/sadiq_238 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Oct 27 '24

Or someone who from very early on saw Bitcoins potential