Another old wallet is dusting to move more than 300 BTC for the first time in 12 years
By Hannah Pérez
A wallet anchored in 2013 distributes bitcoins in two new directions. Do you seek to sell as your Bitcoin treasure increases 100,000%? Once valued at USD $ 300, today those 306 BTC are worth millions of dollars.
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- Another early Bitcoin investor wakes up after years of inactivity.
- Wallet with 306 BTC received in 2013 transfer funds to two new addresses.
- Sales intention? If you do, you will see a gain of millions of dollars.
- The old Bitcoin whales have been resurfaced in the midst of historical maximums.
The Bitcoins Vintage continues to register movements in the midst of the fingers of old whales.
A wallet Bitcoin that he had remained inactive since he received funds in 2013, he reactivated this Friday to move 306 Bitcoins (BTC), currently valued at USD $ 35 million, according to chain data.
The check Whatle alertwhich tracks into the Blockchain The great movements of the cryptocurrency market, reported on the transaction. The address, whose owner is unknown, had originally anchored at the end of March 2013, when Bitcoin It was a price of USD $ 100 the unit. Today’s movement marked the first for that wallet in 12.4 years.
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– Whale Alert (@whale_alert) August 1, 2025
The little more than 300 BTC were divided into two new directions, according to the data of Blockchain. A 200 BTC lot was sent to one of the addresses, while another lot for 106 BTC to a second wallet, as noted The Block. Neither of the two receiving addresses reflect any previous transactions history.
In the midst of ‘OG whales’ movements
It is not clear why the owner of said wallet decided to move his Bitcoins Ancient this Friday. There is the possibility that the extraordinary paper gain of more than 100,000% on its treasure has been a motivation. Let’s keep in mind that when you got those Bitcoinsits total price barely reached $ 300.
The return of that investment would have been even higher a few weeks ago, when the price of Bitcoin It reached a historical maximum of USD $ 123,000. In fact, at that time, this record appreciation motivated other long -standing holders to liquidate.
At the beginning of July, a whale of Bitcoin with 80,201 BTC in his possession he moved his enormous treasure that he had remained without movement for 14 years. While initially the movements seemed innocent, they soon showed clear sales signs when the funds began to deviate to Galaxy Digital and subsequently to Exchange centralized
That entity, identified as an ‘OG whale’ for its age, began to send coins to exchanges when the price of Bitcoin He touched a historical cap, immediately causing agitation in the market. Last Friday, Galaxy He said that the discharge of the Bitcoins for more than USD $ 9 billion, in what he described The greatest theoretical sale of Bitcoin of history.
Bold pressure for the price of Bitcoin?
The transfer of this Friday is thus inserted into a series of recent reactivations of the wallets of the first users of Bitcoin. Already last Thursday we had informed of another 2011 whale that resurfaced to the surface to move USD $ 460 million in BTC.
Users with particularly large amounts of cryptocurrencies, known as whales, have the ability to influence the trajectory of market prices when they buy or sell due to the important amount of Tokens involved.
Merchants closely monitor the whales of Bitcoin, –especially when they date from the Satoshi era (a period between 2009-2013 in which the pseudonym creator of Bitcoin I was still online)–in search of signs about the feeling of the market. There are those who have speculated that the first users could be choosing to withdraw their money in the midst of price increase.
Bitcoin It is currently traded at USD $ 114,300, 3% lower in 24 hours, according to data from Coingcko.
Hannah Estefanía Pérez / Diariobitcoin
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