The owner of 412 bitcoins that lay without movement for ten years withdrew funds

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Peckshield analystsnoticed that an unknown person withdrew 412 bitcoins ($9.6 million at the current exchange rate) from the wallet on which they had been stored since September 2012. This is the first transaction in almost 11 years.

In September 2012, the owner of the wallet bought412.23 BTC and since then the address has been in sleep mode. However, on February 8, 2023, someone withdrew 412.12 BTC from the balance, leaving only 0.11 Bitcoin alone. Thus, over ten and a half years, someone made a profit of $9.57 million - at the time of purchase, the rate of the first cryptocurrency was $12.36 per piece.

Analysts do not know who the owner wasbitcoins. Perhaps this is an investor who is extremely committed to the “hodling” strategy, or perhaps the owner of bitcoins has only now been able to unlock his wallet. There is a possibility that some hacker was able to gain access to the wallet seed.

In November 2022, a similar case of activation of a sleeping address occurred
on the Ethereum network. The owner of 500 ETH did not touch his assets for more than seven years, but suddenly decided to withdraw them.